Legal Opinion
State v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 6, 1915No. 11693Published
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for What-com county, Hardin, J., entered August 21, 1913, dismissing prosecutions for violation of the local option law, upon sustaining demurrers to the informations.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, C. J.
Two informations were filed by the prosecuting attorney of Whatcom county against the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, charging it with a viola*189tion of ch. 81, Laws of 1909, p. 153 (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6292, et seq.), commonly known as the local option law. By agreement of the parties, an amended information was filed in each case. One of these amended informations, omitting formal parts, reads as follows:
“Then and there being the said defendant, Northern Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, did then and there wilfully and unlawfully bring into Bellingham, Whatcom County,…
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