Chicago Grain Products Co. v. Mellon

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

The government issued to plaintiff in 1921 a permit, under the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 10138% ©t seq.), which authorized it to “operate an industrial alcohol plant” at Eoehford, Ill. Another permit, issued the same year, authorized it to “operate a denaturing plant” in Chicago. Each permit contained the following:

“This permit authorizes the operation of the above-described plant or warehouse, the purchase and receipt of alcohol thereat, and the removal therefrom of the manufactured product for any purpose authorized by law or regulations, from the date hereof…