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MURRAY ET AL. v. WILSON DISTILLING CO.

No. 625.

213 U.S. 151 (1909)

29 S.Ct. 458

53 L.Ed. 742

MURRAY, McSWEEN, AND PATTON, CONSTITUTING THE STATE DISPENSARY COMMISSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, v. WILSON DISTILLING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 5, 1909.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. B.L. Abney, with whom Mr. J. Fraser Lyon was on the brief, and Mr. W.F. Stevenson, for petitioners.

Mr. Daniel W. Rountree, with whom Mr. Clifford L. Anderson and Mr. Thomas B. Felder were on the brief, also argued for petitioners.

Mr. Alfred S. Barnard, with whom Mr. George B. Lester was on the brief, for respondent, the Fleischmann Company.

Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecai, with whom Mr. Frank Carter, Mr. Simeon Hyde and Mr. H.C. Chedester were on the brief, for respondent, the Wilson Distilling Company.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The State of South Carolina in the year 1892 assumed the exclusive management of all traffic in liquor. To carry out this purpose a board of control was created, composed of the governor, the comptroller general and the attorney general, clothed with power to supervise the system of liquor traffic which the act embodied and to adopt general rules and regulations pertaining to the subject. All liquor intended for...

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