Bachman v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Erroi- from. District Court, Greer County; C. F. Irwin, Judge. Application of W. A. Thompson for a liquor license.' J. W. E. Bachman and others filed a remonstrance. From a judgment of the district court affirming a judgment granting a license, Bach-man and others bring error.
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Erroi- from. District Court, Greer County; C. F. Irwin, Judge. Application of W. A. Thompson for a liquor license.' J. W. E. Bachman and others filed a remonstrance. From a judgment of the district court affirming a judgment granting a license, Bach-man and others bring error. On the 7th day of March, 1907, W. A.’Thompson filed with the county clerk of Greer county, territory of Oklahoma, his application, accompanied by a petition, for the purpose of having issued to him a license to sell intoxicating liquors in the incorporated town of Erick in said county. On the 28th day of March. 1907,…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliaMS, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). Since the filing of the petition in error in this case the territory of Ojk-lahorna and Indian Territorjr have been admitted into the Union as a- state. Under the terms of the Constitution (Bunn’s Ed. § 9), a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors is forbidden. A decision of this case on its merits by this 'court would not avail anything to either of the parties hereto. The right of defendant in error to sell intoxicating liquors under such license has been expressly repealed. It has several times been held by .this court that it will not decide…
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