Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — FILE TEST SUIT ON PROHI LAW. [ARTICLE]

FILE TEST SUIT ON PROHI LAW.

Louisville, Ky., Oct. 10.—Suit to test the constitutionality of the war time prohibition law was filed in the federal district court here today by Attorneys Levy Mayer, of Chicago, and Marshall Bullitt, of Louisville. The Kentucky. Distilleries and Warehouse company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country, was made plaintiff and Elwood Hamilton, collector of in-ternal-revenue for Kentucky, was named defendant. The petition alleges that the law is unconstitutional because it violates the fifth amendment to the constitution in that it confiscates property without just compensation. The property in question, according to the pleadings, involves 65.000,000 gallons of whiskey in bonded wapehonßen in—Kentucky, valued at approximately STS^QOO.OOfc