Keiwert v. Meyer

Suit by the appellants against the appellee, to recover for goods sold and delivered.

The appellee (defendant below) answered in two paragraphs, substantially alike, that the goods sold and delivered were intoxicating liquors ; that they were sold in the town of Conno ver, in the State of Iowa; that there was, before and at the time of said sale, a law in Iowa prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in said State, setting forth in his answer a copy of the law and negativing the fact that they were sold for medical, etc., purposes.

A copy of the law, as we have said, was made part of the…