State v. Gilmore
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for selling and furnishing intoxicating liquor without authority. Heard on an agreed statement of the facts, at the March Term, 1907, Franklin County, Haselton, J., presiding. Judgment, guilty. The respondent excepted. The opinion fully states the case. A master is not liable for the criminal acts of his servant, unless done with the master’s knowledge or by his instructions. 1 Bish. New Or.
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Information for selling and furnishing intoxicating liquor without authority. Heard on an agreed statement of the facts, at the March Term, 1907, Franklin County, Haselton, J., presiding. Judgment, guilty. The respondent excepted. The opinion fully states the case. A master is not liable for the criminal acts of his servant, unless done with the master’s knowledge or by his instructions. 1 Bish. New Or. Law, §218. “But if the sale of liquor is made by the servant without the knowledge of the master and really in opposition to his will, and in no way participated in, approved or countenanced…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
Information for selling intoxicating liquor without'authority. Section 20, Act No. 115, passed in 1904, reads: “No person shall furnish, sell, expose or keep for sale any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act; * * * ” Condition five of section 23 is:
*516“That no liquor shall be sold or furnished to a minor for his own úse or the use of any other person, nor to an habitual drunkard; * * *
V The case comes to this Court upon an agreed statement of facts signed by the state’s attorney and the respondent. The material facts are that the respondent on Dec. 24, 1906, was the holder of a…
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