Mitchell v. State ex rel. Florence Dispensary
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeals from the Circuit Court of Lauderdale. Tried before the Hon. E. B. Almon. These two cases are submitted together, inasmuch as they involve the construction of the same statute.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of Lauderdale. Tried before the Hon. E. B. Almon. These two cases are submitted together, inasmuch as they involve the construction of the same statute. The case of Mitchell, Judge, etc. v. The State ex rel Florence Dispensary, was instituted) by the Florence Dispensary filing a petition addressed to Hon. E. B. Almon, judge of the eleventh judicial circuit, in which it was averred that the petitioner wa.s a corporation duly organized under and by virtue of tire act of the general assembly approved December 10, 1900, entitled “An Act to establish and maintain,…
1Opinion of the CourtMoCLELLAN, C. J.
The main question presented ini each of these cases is the constitutionality of an act approved December 10, 1900, entitled “An act to establish and maintain, regulate and make efficient a Dispensary in: Florence, and a branch thereof, in that part of Florence known as East Florence, Lauderdale county, Alabama. ‘And to provide for the issuance of liquor licenses in Lauderdale county until this act goes into effect.”’ (Acts, 1900-1901, p. 288.)
In the first place it is insisted that the act coniMns two subjects, the establishment, etc. of a dispensary at Florence and the issuance of liquor…
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