United States v. Stubblefield

In these eases the question to be determined is whether persons who sell “Lemon Ginger,” manufactured by the Collins Bros. Drug Company, and “Empire Tonic Bitters,” prepared by the Donell Manufacturing Company, are retail liquor dealers, within the meaning of section 16 of the act of February 8, 1875, amendatory of the internal revenue laws. This, of course, involves the further question whether the compounds referred to are “distilled spirits or wines,” as section 3244, Rev. St. U. S., defines a retail liquor dealer to be a person who sells “foreign or domestic distilled spirits or wines in…