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HAMILTON v. KENTUCKY DISTILLERIES & WAREHOUSE CO.

Nos. 589, 602.

251 U.S. 146 (1919)

HAMILTON, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE COLLECTION DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY, v. KENTUCKY DISTILLERIES & WAREHOUSE COMPANY. DRYFOOS ET AL. v. EDWARDS, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE SECOND COLLECTION DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 15, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson, with whom Mr. W.V. Gregory was on the briefs, for appellant in No. 589 and appellee in No. 602.

Mr. Levy Mayer and Mr. William Marshall Bullitt for appellee in No. 589:

Mr. Walter C. Noyes, with whom Mr. Moses J. Stroock, Mr. Arthur L. Strasser and Mr. Walter S. Dryfoos were on the brief, for appellants in No. 602.

Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler and Mr. R.C. Minton, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curioe in No. 589.

Mr. Levi Cooke and Mr. George R. Benneman, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curioe in No. 602.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The armistice with Germany was signed November 11, 1918. Thereafter Congress passed and, on November 21, 1918, the President approved the War-Time Prohibition Act (c. 212, 40 Stat. 1045, 1046), which provides as follows:

"That after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of...

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