Coggeshall v. Groves

Tbis suit is brought upon a bond which was given pursuant to the provisions of Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 87, upon an application for a license to sell intoxicating liquor. Under the statute the license could not issue until the bond was given, with condition not to violate any of the provisions of the law. The license was granted for the year from July, 1882, to July, 1883, and the breach of the condi tion is alleged, and has been found by the jury, to have been in August, 1882.

May 15, 1886, an amendment to the constitution of the State went into effect, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating…