Beard's Appeal from County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the decision of the County Commissioners for Fairfield County, granting a license to John H. and William McNamara .to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in the town of Norwalk ; taken to the Superior Court in said county and erased from the docket by the court, Thayer, J., upon motion of the appellees.
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Appeal from the decision of the County Commissioners for Fairfield County, granting a license to John H. and William McNamara .to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in the town of Norwalk ; taken to the Superior Court in said county and erased from the docket by the court, Thayer, J., upon motion of the appellees. Thereupon the appellant filed a motion to restore the cause to the docket which was denied, and the appellant appealed for alleged errors of the court in erasing thé cause and in refusing to restore it to the docket. In this court the appellees filed a plea in abatement. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Chapter CLXXY. of the Public Acts of 1893, (p. 319,) gives an appeal to the Superior Court from a decision of county commissioners granting a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, to “ any tax-payer of the town in which the business carried on under such license is to be transacted, who shall be aggrieved.”
Section 3063' of the General Statutes provides that all applications for such a license must be indorsed in writing by five electors and taxpayers of the town. Such taxpayers must, by § 3049, be residents in the town, owning property assessed on its grand list. Any citizen of…
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