State v. Easton Social, Literary & Musical Club
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals as upon Writ of Error, from the Circuit Court for Talbot County. The State of Maryland filed, through the State’s attorney for Talbot' County, a petition in each of these cases, for the forfeiture of the charter of the defendant corporation, because of the abuse, nonuse and misuse of its franchises and corporate powers. The proceeding was taken under the provisions of section 255 of Article 28 of the Code of Public General Laws.
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Appeals as upon Writ of Error, from the Circuit Court for Talbot County. The State of Maryland filed, through the State’s attorney for Talbot' County, a petition in each of these cases, for the forfeiture of the charter of the defendant corporation, because of the abuse, nonuse and misuse of its franchises and corporate powers. The proceeding was taken under the provisions of section 255 of Article 28 of the Code of Public General Laws. The answer in each case set up as a defence, that the defendant was a Social Club, and incorporated under the General Laws of Maryland relating to…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, C. J.
As we understood at the argument, this and the succeeding case of the State against “The Farmers Social, *299Literary and Musical Club, of St. Michael's,” both of Talbot County, Avere brought to this Court for the purpose of having definitely settled the question of the right of such clubs to furnish liquor to their own members, at a price fixed by the regulations of the club, notAvithstanding the provision of the local laAv, which declares that no person shall sell spirituous or fermented liquors in the particular localities, under a prescribed penalty. And such being the object of bringing…
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