New York Supreme Court October 15, 1821 (Furman v. Knapp)

Spencer, Ch. J.

delivered the opinion of the Court. The plaintiffs sued for two penalties of twenty-five dollars each, for that the defendant had sold at different times, in the tenth ward of the city of New-York, half a pint of spirits, at his grocery-store, to be drank in his house or store, in the one case ; and in the other, to be conveyed out of his house, without having the license of the