Ingersoll v. Skinner
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Error to tho Chenango common pleas. The overseers of the poor of the town of Norwich sued Frederick W. & Thomas II. Ingersoll in an action of debt, before a justice of the peace, to recover a penalty alleged to have been incurred by the defendants for selling strong or spirituous liquors in quantities less than five gallons, without having a licence under the provision of the revised statutes entitled “ Of excise, and the regulation of taverns and groceries.”
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Error to tho Chenango common pleas. The overseers of the poor of the town of Norwich sued Frederick W. & Thomas II. Ingersoll in an action of debt, before a justice of the peace, to recover a penalty alleged to have been incurred by the defendants for selling strong or spirituous liquors in quantities less than five gallons, without having a licence under the provision of the revised statutes entitled “ Of excise, and the regulation of taverns and groceries.” The defendants pleaded the general issue, and the cause was tried by a jury. It was proved that the defendants kept a grocery in the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Jewett, J.
This action is debt, by the overseers of the poor of the town of Norwich, in Chenango county, on the fifteenth section of the statute entitled “ Of excise, and the regulation of taverns and groceries,” (1 R. S. 680,) which provides that “whoever shall sell any strong or spirituous liquors or any wines in any quantity less than five gallons at a time, without "having a licence therefor granted as herein directed, shall forfeit twenty-five dollars.” The offence was clearly proved. The evidence shows that the defendants kept a grocery store and sold spirituous liquors,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Coffin v. CoffinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
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