New York Breweries Corp. v. Baker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of two promissory notes, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgmentrendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover the amount of two promissory notes, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgmentrendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The plaintiff is a foreign corporation engaged in the business of brewing and selling ales in the city of New York; the defendant is executrix on the estate of William Baker, who at the time of his death was a licensed liquor dealer in Hartford, and a wholesale customer of the plaintiff in the purchase of the plaintiff’s ales…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The sales in question being made in New York, it was not necessary for the plaintiff to take out a license to sell liquors in this State ; nor to inquire whether the license for which the defendant paid and under the protection of which she carried on her business, should have been issued to her as executrix rather than to her individually, or to her business manager.
In State v. Ascher, 54 Conn. 299, it was held that § 3078 of the General Statutes prohibits any person acting as agent of a merchant doing business in another State, from procuring in this State orders for liquors, although such…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. AscherSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1886
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