DOWNHAM v. ALEXANDRIA COUNCIL


77 U.S. 173 (1869)

10 Wall. 173

DOWNHAM ET AL. v. ALEXANDRIA COUNCIL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Brent and Wattles, for the plaintiffs in error, urged in this court the same positions which the defendant set up below.

Mr. D.L. Smoot, for the city council of Alexandria, contra.


Mr. Justice FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court as follows:

The argument of counsel proceeds upon the supposition that the beer and ale in which the defendants dealt was manufactured either in a foreign country, or in another State of the Union; but there is nothing in the record to warrant the supposition. The first question that the parties desired to present in the agreed statement is not, in truth, raised by the facts admitted. It...

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