Beverage Co. v. Villa Marie Co.

The central question involved in this appeal from a judgment foreclosing a note and chattel mortgage is whether the instruments were tainted with illegality. We consider the case under appropriate assignments challenging the sufficiency of the findings to support the conclusions and judgment.

The facts found by the court may be epitomized as fol-lows: While one Jarvis was engaged at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in the business of selling beer at wholesale, he sold and delivered to defendant corporation various saloon fixtures to enable it to engage in the sale of intoxicating liquors at retail.…