Miller v. DeArmond

Best, C.

— The appellee filed an application with the board of commissioners of Decatur county for a license to retail intoxicating liquors. The appellants remonstrated on the ground that the applicant was not a fit person to be trusted with such license. The board of commissioners denied the application. An appeal was taken to the circuit court, the cause submitted to a jury for trial, and, after the appellee had offered his evidence, the jury, in obedience to an instruction of the court, returned a verdict against him, upon which a judgment was rendered, denying the application and assessing…