State ex rel. Bell v. Bird

— Ten days prior to the first day of the regular May term, 1904, of the Mississippi county court, the relators filed with the clerk of the circuit court, their petition for a license to keep a dramshop, in the city of Charleston, a city of the fourth class in said county containing over 2,000 and less than 2,500 inhabitants. At the May term, the county court took up the petition and made the following order thereon:

“In the matter of the petition of O. C. Bell, B. E.' Einley and William Langston to keep a dramshop in block (1) one original town of. Charleston, the matter is taken up and the…