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Show Liquor Casejs Decided i Question of Constitutionality of Webb ' Knyon Act St II Remains Undetermined Un-determined However Washington, Juno 11. Tho su-1 su-1 promo court today disposed of tho so J called Kentucky Webb Kenyon liquor ' casos without determining tho ion- StltUtlonnlltV of thn W0I1I1 K-nt, - """-iij ui uiu euo Kenyon law, or passing on Its construction. Tho Kentucky caso was n prosecution of tho Adams Kxpross company for hringlng liquor for personal uso from Tennossco Into Whitley county, Ky., dry territory. I Justice Day, for tho court, held It ' was bound to nccept tho decision ot j tho Kentucky court ot appeals, that tho Webb Konyon law was not applicable. ap-plicable. Under that decision thn tonvlctlon of tho express company wns set as do. I Aftor tho decision In tho Kentucky I caso counsel for a distilling company I concerned in tho West Virginia cases obtained leavo to file copies of a law 1 passed by tho West Vlrg nla leglsla- j turo May 21, 1915, amending provlous legislation so as to provldo oxpross- ly that it was unlawful to transport liquor for personal wo In tho stato. Counsel In n brief urged that was an Indicaton that tho law provlous to that time did not prohibit such trans- 'portatlon. it was urged tho amend- 'mont was unconstitutional. |