City of Spokane v. Baughman

Citations

• 54 Wash. 315
• 103 P. 14
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 993

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors — Sale Without License — Clubs—Furnishing to Members. The serving of intoxicating liquors by a social club exclusively to its members, and not for profit, at a price fixed by the club, which is charged to the account of the members, is a sale within the meaning of an ordinance to regulate the sale of liquors and prohibiting their sale without first obtaining a license; since the matter of making a profit is immaterial and the principal object of the law is regulative.</p> <p>Same — Barrooms—Social Clubs. The maintenance by a social club of a room wherein to furnish liquors to members to be drunk on the premises is the conducting of a barroom, within the meaning of an ordinance regulating the liquor business and barrooms, especially where the law makes drug stores the only exception.</p>