Hutchinson v. Reliance Realty Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that Section “4864 of the Code . . . makes it a misdemeanor to sell, give, or loan a minor a pistol or other dangerous weapon”
• referring to prohibition on firearm sales to minors as “wise and salutary” legislation designed to “prevent crime”
• explaining that Section “4864 of the Code . . . makes 12 See, e.g., Brown v. Beason, 24 Ala. 466, 466 (1854) (discussing the plaintiff’s “several children, some of whom were over twenty-one years of age, and some minors”); Saltonstall v. Riley, 28 Ala. 164, 172 (1856
• con- cluded that a state law “prevent[ing] the sale, gift, or loan of a pistol or other like dangerous weapon to a minor [was] not only constitutional as tending to prevent crime but wise and salutary in all its provisions”
• “[W]e do not deem it necessary to do more than say that we regard the acts to prevent the sale, gift, or loan of a pistol or other like dangerous weapon to a minor, not only constitutional as tending to prevent crime but wise and salutary in all its provisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).