Commonwealth v. Greenfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint under the St. of 1875, c. 99, to the Police Court in Lee, charging the defendant with a single sale of intoxicating liquor, on July 1,1876, to Wilbur C. Winegar, at Lee.
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Complaint under the St. of 1875, c. 99, to the Police Court in Lee, charging the defendant with a single sale of intoxicating liquor, on July 1,1876, to Wilbur C. Winegar, at Lee. Trial in the Superior Court, before Allen, J., who allowed this bill of exceptions: “ The following facts were proved or admitted, and were all the essential facts found in the case: The defendant was doing business in Pittsfield, in the bottling and sale of lager bier and cider, under a license issued to him by the proper authorities, to sell malt liquors, cider and light wines in Pittsfield. On June 80, 1876, the…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
Assuming (as most favorable to the defendant, but without deciding) that the order of the purchaser would have justified the defendant in setting apart the goods at Pitts-field, with the purpose and the effect of passing the title in them to the purchaser, it certainly did not require him to do so, and the evidence stated in the bill of exceptions, to say the least, warranted the inference that the defendant entertained no such purpose, and did not intend to part with the title until he actually delivered the goods at Lee, according to the terms of the order. If such was the fact, the goods,…
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