Lyng v. Michigan
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. Plaintiff in error was prosecuted and convicted in the Circuit Court for Iron County, Michigan, under an information alleging “that on the 19th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, at the village of- Iron River, in said Iron County, Henry Lyng, then and. there being, was a person whose business consisted in part of selling at wholesale brewed and malt liquors, (not proprietary…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. Plaintiff in error was prosecuted and convicted in the Circuit Court for Iron County, Michigan, under an information alleging “that on the 19th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, at the village of- Iron River, in said Iron County, Henry Lyng, then and. there being, was a person whose business consisted in part of selling at wholesale brewed and malt liquors, (not proprietary patent medicine,) as agent for Franz Hagemeister and Henry Hagemeister, copartners doing business in the city of Green…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
delivered the opinion of the court.. Under the statute in question, which is entitled “ An act to provide for the taxation and regulation of the business of manufacturing, selling, keeping for sale, furnishing, giving or delivering spirituous or intoxicating liquors and malt, brewed or fermented liquors or vinous liquors in this State, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with .the. provisions of this act,” an annual tax is levied “ upon the business of selling, only brewed or malt liquors at wholesale or retail, or at wholesale and retail” of three hundred dollars, and…
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