City of Charleston v. Charleston Brewing Co.

JPOFFENBARGER, JUDGE:

A writ of error in this case to a judgment of the circuit ■■court of Kanawha county, rendered on an appeal from a .judgment of the police court of the city of Charleston, pre■sents a single question, namely, whether said city may im■pose a license tax upon the manufacture and sale at wholesale, within its corporate limits, of lager beer, the plant ■of the defendant being situated and operated within said limits, and such sales made by it at the plant to customers en- , gaged in the retail liquor business in the city,

The charter of the city provides, section 26 of chapter…