Hall v. City Park Brewing Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Appellee was incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing and selling malt and malt liquors, and dealing generally in real and personal estate necessary for the successful prosecution of that business. After the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment and the passage of the Volstead Act in October, 1919, the company endeavored to manufacture and sell malt beverages which conformed to the provisions of the law, but the effort met with a heavy financial loss and the enterprise proved a failure. It then attempted to manufacture malt extracts. A separate corporation…