Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1898 — Can’t Have a Partner. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Have a Partner.

A saloon keeper cannot have a partner in his business. The Appellate court has so declared in reversing the case of Dustin M. Spaulding against Julius Nathan. Nathan bad recovered a judgment against Spaulding as the partner of Edwin Wikel, who was a licensed saloon keeper at Montpelier, Ind. The court says that “intoxicating liquor can be legally vended at retail only by virtue of a license issued by the board of commissioners and such license cannot be issued to two or more persons as partners.” After reviewing the statutes on the subject it concludes that, as two or more persons are inhibited from obtaining a license jointly or as partners, they cannot, eugage in

retailing intoxicating liquors under the law, and one person cannot be held liable as the silent partner of another for liquor purchased for the saloon.