Glenn v. Lynn
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Bussell. Tried before tbe Horn Jesse M. Carmichael. Tbe appellee in this case, Moses T. Lynn, filed bis application on tbe 19th January, 1890, in the office of Hon. E. H. Glenn, judge of probate of Bussell county, for a license to retail spirituous liquors “in tbe town of Girard in said county, located in what is known as the Peabody School District,” accompanied with the recommendation in.writing of “more than twenty householders and…
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Bussell. Tried before tbe Horn Jesse M. Carmichael. Tbe appellee in this case, Moses T. Lynn, filed bis application on tbe 19th January, 1890, in the office of Hon. E. H. Glenn, judge of probate of Bussell county, for a license to retail spirituous liquors “in tbe town of Girard in said county, located in what is known as the Peabody School District,” accompanied with the recommendation in.writing of “more than twenty householders and freeholders of said town and district, as to his moral character and fitness to engage in said business,” and tendered the…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
The judge of probate of Bussell county refused to issue a license to appellee, on his application, to retail spirituous and vinous liquors in the town of Girard, on the specified ground that he failed to produce the recommendation, as to his moral fitness, of the board of trustees of the Peabody School District. The district was incorporated by a special act of the General Assembly, approved February 10, 1888, entitled, “An act to establish a separate school district, to be known as the Peabody School District, in Bussell county, Alabama, and for the appointment of a board of trustees for…
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