Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Court Upholds Liquor Act. [ARTICLE]

Court Upholds Liquor Act.

The important case of The State vs. F. L. Taft and D. H. McQuen, which had been pending in the Supreme court for ic’ny months, was decided at Burlington, Vt While the case is remanded, owing to a technicality, the court held that the liquor law passed by the Vermont legislature in 1898 was constitutional. This law provides that the holding of a United States license for the sale of liquor is prima facie evidence that the holder is a common seller and he may be punished tor vio* lating the prohibitory law.