Druggist Cases

These five separate causes, inasmuch as they all turn upon the same legal questions, have been heard together. The defendants are retail druggists, doing business in the city of Nashville. The bills are filed by the State and the county of Davidson, for the purpose of collecting the privilege tax imposed by law upon retail liquor dealers for the years 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885. The bills charge that the defendants, during each of these years, sold spirituous and vinous liquors without taking out the license and paying the tax imposed upon retail liquor dealers, and that they are…