Davis v. Bronson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Johnson District Court. This is an action to recover the value of certain brandy, wine, ale, porter, schnapps, &c., alleged to have been sold and delivered to defendant, by the plaintiff.
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Appeal from the Johnson District Court. This is an action to recover the value of certain brandy, wine, ale, porter, schnapps, &c., alleged to have been sold and delivered to defendant, by the plaintiff. The defendant answered that the same were intoxicating liquors, sold to defendant by the plaintiff, in the State of Illinois, in the year 1857, with intent to enable the defendant to violate the statute and laws of the State of Iowa; that the same were shipped from Chicago, directed to defendant at Iowa City, in Johnson county, with the knowledge that the defendant was not the agent of said…
1Opinion of the CourtStockton, J.
— The defence is based upon the fifteenth section of the “act for the suppression of intemperance,” which provides that “ no action of any kind shall be maintained in any court of the State for intoxicating liquors, or the value thereof, sold in any other State or country, contrary to the laws of said State or country, or with intent to enable any person to violate any provision of this act; nor shall any action be maintained for the recovery or possession of any intoxicating liquors, or the value thereof, except in cases where persons owning or possessing such liquors with lawful intent, may…
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