City of Virginia v. Gipps Brewing Co.

This was an action of debt, brought by the city of Virginia against the Gipps Brewing Company and the Peoria Bottling Company, to recover certain penalties imposed for breaches of a city ordinance. The declaration alleges that, on the 1st day of August, 1888, the plaintiff was and still is a municipal corporation organized under the General Incorporation Law, and that on that day there was in full force and effect an ordinance of said city, duly passed, approved and published, making it unlawful for any person, by agent or otherwise, within the corporate limits of said city, to sell or give…