In re Petition of Wilson for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Citations

• 10 N.M. 32

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Constitutional Law — Coal Oil — License—Original Packages. A Territorial statute which imposes a license fee as a condition upon which coal oil may be sold in the Territory is unconstitutional and void in so far as it applies to sales in original packages by the importer of coal oil, produced and refined without the Territory.,</p> <p>2. Id. Section 2, of the act of the Territorial Legislature, approved March 15, 1899 (Session Laws of 1899, page 101), construed to apply to sales of coal oil in the Territory in original packages by the importer and held to be to that extent unconstitutional and void.</p>