Hazle Drug Co. v. Wilner

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

In September, 1920, the plaintiff corporation sold and delivered to the defendants, in Pennsylvania, a thousand cases (twelve thousand bottles), being a car lot of horke vino, for $9,400, and this action of assumpsit is on a trade acceptance given therefor. The defense interposed was that horke vina was an intoxicating liquor sold by plaintiff in violation of law. The jury, on an implied finding that it was not sold as a beverage, rendered a verdict for plaintiff; the trial court, however, entered judgment for the defendant non obstante veredicto ; therefrom…