State v. Roberts
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Debt, on two liqnor license bonds. Trial at the October term, 1907, of the superior court before Wallace, C. J., who found verdicts for the state, to which the defendants excepted upon the ground that the liquor license law of the state is unconstitutional.
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
These actions are debt upon bonds given to secure compliance with the conditions upon which liquor licenses were issued to the defendants under the provisions of chapter 95, Laws 1908. The justice before whom the actions were tried found verdicts for the plaintiff. The only defence set up was that chapter 95 was unconstitutional, and the defendants excepted to the verdicts upon this ground alone. In support of their exceptions, they take the position that the traffic in intoxicating liquors is productive of crime and pauperism; that it is therefore wrongful and cannot lawfully be licensed;…
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