Lendholm v. People

The majority opinion is based upon the assumption that the statute embraces every place where liquors are sold in less quantities than one quart.

The cases cited from this jurisdiction do not, in my opinion, sustain this conclusion, for the simple • reason that in the case at bar the question is whether a keeper of a bona fide restaurant who sells liquors in connection with meals is embraced within the statute — a proposition which was in no sense involved in any of our previous decisions — and hence is one of first impression which must be determined from a construction of the statute under…