City of Kewanee v. Puskar

The city of Kewanee filed a declaration in debt in the city court of Kewanee against Mike Puskar, plaintiff in error, herein referred to as defendant. The declaration as finally amended contained eleven counts. The first count charged the defendant with suffering a nuisance to exist on June 5, 1920, within the corporate limits of the city, by knowingly permitting certain premises owned by him to be used as a boarding house or rooming house within which intoxicating liquor was kept for sale as a beverage, in violation of section 5 of article 3, chapter 17, of the revised ordinances of the city…