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DE BARY v. LOUISIANA

No. 696.

227 U.S. 108 (1913)

33 S.Ct. 239

57 L.Ed. 441

DE BARY & COMPANY v. STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 27, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.D. Rouse, Mr. William Grant and Mr. William B. Grant for plaintiff in error.

Mr. R.G. Pleasant, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, Mr. William W. Westerfield and Mr. Edward Rightor for defendant in error.

Memorandum opinion, by direction of the court, by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.

De Bary & Company seek the reversal of a judgment for the amount of a license tax (Act No 176 of 1908, Session Acts of that year, p. 236) for engaging "in the business of disposing of alcoholic liquors in less quantities than five gallons." It was conceded below that the business for which the license was exacted consisted only in the sale in the original packages of foreign wine or liquor...

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