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Show SLiOOGB CASE 15 10 ; BE IMTESTED Interpretation of Bone-Dry Law by Supreme Court Is Anxiously Awaited. pfceiiil to the Tribune. ! iHjJ.KX, Ocr. '7. Tiiat the case auain.-t certain intoxicating liip.iors and tiie claimant, (atto Meek, will he hotly con-xv con-xv ted when the matter finaily reaches the supreme court of the state on appeal ap-peal is the. information which lias come to I" :-i-t ric; Attorney Stuart P. Dobbs in a letter from the office of the attorney general. The papers are now being prepared pre-pared In the attorrrt-y genera l's office, District Attorney Dobbs liavins' obtained a thirty-day stay oi judgment in order to pave the way for the appeal. The appeal is based on the recent decision de-cision of J mif-re A. F. l-M-ait in the Second Sec-ond district court that the state leu'is-!a leu'is-!a f i! re in enacting tho "bone dry" liquor law did not intend that liquor purchased prior to August 1. li'IV, for personal use should be contiscated and destroyed under un-der tiie new law. The decision turned back to .Mr. Meek about SUSO worth of wines and whisky that he had purchased prior to August 1 for his personal use and which had been seized by Ogden police officers. Tne attorney general's office is of the strong opinion, according to the letter to District A ttorney Dobbs, that Judge Frait has placed the wrong construction upon the law. it will he anything hut a friendly suit, tho district attorney stated today, tile attorney general and his assistants as-sistants being determined to contest the matter in every detail in an effort to prove their contention that any a nd all liquor in possession, no ma tter whether purchased before or after August 1, constitutes con-stitutes a violation of the state-wide prohibition pro-hibition law. t District Attorney Dobbs plans to ask for the continuance of several liquor cases in the district court, pending a supreme su-preme court decision in the Meek case. |