Case ID: wis_83/html/0339-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Winslow, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mayer, Plaintiff in error, vs. The State, Defendant in error.
    
      October 3
    
    
      October 25, 1892.
    
    
      Excise laws: Sale of liquor by agent.
    
    A sale of beer, whether to a dealer or to a consumer, cannot lawfully be made by an agent from a warehouse or store-room in a city other than that in which the brewery is located, without first obtaining a license from the city m which the sale is made.
    EEEOE to the County Court of Winnebago County.
    The Ered Miller Brewing Company manufactures beer at Milwaukee. It established a warehouse or store-room at Neenah, where it kept its beer 'in kegs and other original packages. This warehouse was in charge of plaintiff in error, who conducted, the business at Neenah. Without obtaining any license from the city of Neenah,.the plaintiff in error, as agent of the brewing, company, sold and delivered a half barrel of beer to one Ehlert, a duly licensed saloon keeper at Neenah. For this act he was adjudged guilty of selling malt liquors without license, and sentenced to pay a fine; and to review that judgment he sued out his writ of error.
    For the plaintiff in error there was a brief by Nath. Pereles & Sons and Byron Sanders, and oral argument by Mr. Sanders and W. B. Weller.
    
    
      For the defendant in error the cause was submitted on the brief of the Attorney General and J. M. Clancey, Assistant Attorney General.
   Winslow, J.

The conviction must be affirmed. The case is ruled by the decision in Peitz v. State, 68 Wis. 538. The only difference between the two cases is that in the Peitz Case the sale was made direct to the consumer, while here it was made to a dealer. No distinction between the two cases is made by the excise law. The terms of the statute cover both oases equally.

By the Court.— Judgment affirmed.