Brauer v. Hyman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Walker, Chancellor.

This was a suit in the Supreme Court, tried at the Hudson Circuit by Judge Speer, who non-suited the plaintiff, who has appealed here from the judgment thereon.

Judge Speer in granting the nonsuit said, inter alia, that the contract was that of a business for the sale of alcoholic beverages, called in the contract wines and liquors, which beverages were required to be sold under a license procured from the public authorities; that the contract was legal when made because at that time the sale of alcoholic beverages was legal when…