Morris v. Torch Club, Inc.

The question which is finally before us is whether private clubs, which dispense intoxicating liquor in dry counties, violate Initiated Act I of 1942 which prohibits the “manufacture, sale, barter, loan or giving away” of any intoxicating liquor in dry counties. In 1969 the Arkansas legislature passed Act 132 which provided that private clubs which dispense intoxicating liquors to its members from a “locker pool” or revolving fund “shall not be deemed to be . . . [selling] or be in violation of any law of this state prohibiting the manufacture, sale, barter, loan or giving away of…