State ex rel. White v. Ruark
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Newton Circuit Court. — Hon. M. G. McGregor, Judge. The record shows the petition for the election was received by the board of aldermen on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1887, and the election was ordered to be, and was, held August 9, 1887, being forty-three days after the receipt of the petition.
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Appeal from the Newton Circuit Court. — Hon. M. G. McGregor, Judge. The record shows the petition for the election was received by the board of aldermen on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1887, and the election was ordered to be, and was, held August 9, 1887, being forty-three days after the receipt of the petition. The local option law (section 2, Acts of 1887, page 179) says: “ Such election shall be held within forty days after the receipt of said petition, but not within sixty days of any municipal or state election held in such city.” The time fixed by law within which an election shall…
1Opinion of the CourtBiggs, J.
This is a proceeding by mandamus, to compel the defendants as judges of the county court of Newton county, to issue to the relator, a license to keep a dram-shop in the city of Neosho, in said county. The circuit court denied the peremptory writ, dismissed the proceedings, and the relator prosecutes this appeal.
The records of the county court of said county show, that under the dramshop law of the state, known as the “Downing Law,” the relator was entitled to the license. But the defendants justified their refusal to grant the license, upon the ground that the city of Neosho, was a city of…
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