Primary judicial chronology for the sales side of Tennessee’s state prohibition sequence.
The court explains that the successive four-mile laws prohibited beverage sales within four miles of schools and that by 1909 no point in the state lay outside that reach. Other reported accounts use January 20 as the enactment date; this excerpt is relied on for the July 1 effective date and statewide legal effect.
“The last of these acts (chapter 1, Acts of 1909) was passed January 23, 1909, and went into effect July 1, 1909, and made the series of four-mile laws complete.”
Hosted opinion paragraph 143
Opinion review of Tennessee’s four-mile laws
Transcribed from the complete hosted opinion on 2026-09-01. The citation’s Verification Notes preserve the enactment-day discrepancy.
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