Olympia Brewing Co. v. State

Citations

• 102 Wash. 494
• 173 P. 430
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 976

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors—License—Recovery oe Fees—Voluntary Payment. Where, in order to close out its business when the state wide prohibition law was to go into effect on January 1, 1916, a brewing company was compelled to take out a state license for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1915, the payment for the full year was not a voluntary payment, and the fees exacted by the state for the last half of the term during which the license could not be used may be recovered from the state, regardless of whether they were paid under protest or not.</p>