State v. Schluer
Oregon Supreme Court
From Wallowa: John W. Knowles, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. The defendant, E. T. Schluer, was charged with the crime of selling intoxicating liquor in Wallowa County March 10, 1911, in violation of the local option law, which, it is alleged, was then in force in the entire county.
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From Wallowa: John W. Knowles, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. The defendant, E. T. Schluer, was charged with the crime of selling intoxicating liquor in Wallowa County March 10, 1911, in violation of the local option law, which, it is alleged, was then in force in the entire county. A plea of not guilty having been entered, the cause was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance, that the city of Joseph is duly incorporated and by its charter, which was in force November 8, 1910, and thereafter continued effective, is authorized to license the sale of intoxicating liquors;…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
delivered the opinion of the court.. The question to be considered is whether or not the change of the organic law referred to relieved the city *22of Joseph from the order of prohibition in force in Wallowa County as a whole so as to permit the municipality, pursuant to its charter and an ordinance, to license the sale of intoxicating liquors within its limits when no local option election was ever held in the city alone, but in a precinct that included such municipality. The altered section is as follows:
“Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by the…
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