Sowell v. Red

This is an appeal by R. B. Sowell, from the action of the Circuit Judge of Lincoln County, affirming judgment of the Lincoln County Beer Board, composed of G. L. Red, Leonard Mansfield and John V. Matthews, revoking Sowell’s license to sell beer in Lincoln County.

The pertinent facts are these:

In 1946 Sowell obtained a license from the then Lincoln County Beer Board, to sell beer on land which he controlled, near the intersection of the Petersburg and Fayetteville Highway, about % of a mile south of Peters-burg, Tennessee, on the west side of said highway. After exercising his privilege to…