State ex rel. Peacock v. Village Council of Osakis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Petition to the district court for Douglas county for a writ of mandamus to compel the village council of the village of Osakis to issue a license to sell liquor.
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Petition to the district court for Douglas county for a writ of mandamus to compel the village council of the village of Osakis to issue a license to sell liquor. The members of the village council made answer, admitted the allegations of the petition and alleged that the village recorder failed to issue the license sought, upon the sole ground' that the village council was in doubt whether under the vote at the annual election it had the legal authority to grant the license, for the reason the poll list showed two hundred sixty persons offered to vote at the election and there were only one…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
This was a proceeding in mandamus, instituted upon the relation of William A. Peacock, to compel the council of the village of Osalds to issue and deliver to him a license to sell liquors in the village. *367The members of the village council and the recorder were made parties respondent.
At the village election in March, 1910, the question whether or not liquor licenses should be granted by the village was duly submitted. The poll list contained two hundred sixty names, and that seems to have been the number of persons who actually voted at the election. Of this number, however, only two hundred…
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