Case Name: M. C. Carter, Appellant, v. Fred Miller Brewing Company, Henry Potratz, Agent, and certain real estate
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1900-05-18
Citations: 111 Iowa 457
Docket Number: 
Parties: M. C. Carter, Appellant, v. Fred Miller Brewing Company, Henry Potratz, Agent, and certain real estate.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 111
Pages: 457–458

Head Matter:
M. C. Carter, Appellant, v. Fred Miller Brewing Company, Henry Potratz, Agent, and certain real estate.
1 Mulct.law: violation: Injunction. The maintenance of a cold-storage warehouse wherein intoxicating liquors* are kept for sale, and the filling of orders from such warehouse is a violation of the mulct statute and may he enjoined.
2 Appeal: review: Party not appealing. Where defendant has not taken an appeal, the supreme court, on an appeal by plaintiff, will not consider the action of the trial court in suppressing certain depositions taken by defendant.
Appeal from Winneshiek District Court. — Hon. L. E. . Fellows, Judge.
Friday, May 18, 1900.
Application in equity for an injunction against a liquor nuisance in the city of Decorah. The petition was dismissed at plaintiff’s cost, and from this judgment he appeals.
-Reversed.
D. It. Acres for appellant.
John B.. Kaye for appellees.

Opinion:
Waterman, J.
Defendants complain of the ruling of the trial court in refusing to suppress certain depositions taken on behalf of plaintiff, but as defendants do not appeal we cannot consider the matter.'
II. Question is made as to whether the mulct statute was operative in the city of Decorah. We do not find it necessary to pass upon the various matters discussed under this head; for, on the assumption that such statute was in effect, its terms and provisions were manifestly violated. The Fred Miller Brewing Company, a foreign corporation, through its agent Potratz, maintained a cold-storage warehouse oel the real estate proceeded against, wherein intoxicating liquors were kept for sale. Concededly, defendant solicited orders in different places about the city for beer, and filled such orders from its stock in the warehouse, delivering the liquors to its various customers at their respective business houses. This was a violation of the statute. Bartel v. Hobson, 107 Iowa, 644; Cameron v. Fellows, 109 Iowa, 534. It is urged on behalf of appellee that a cold-storage warehouse cannot be conducted, if the liquors must be kept and sales made in a single room. If this is true, it may be an argument in favor of amending the statute, but does not warrant us in misconstruing its plain terms. A writ of injunction should have been granted. The costs of printing appellant's additional argument will be paid by him —Reversed.