Perkins v. Ledbetter
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Monroe county. HoN. Look E. Houston, Judge. Ledbetter, the appellee, desiring to obtain license to retail intoxicating liquors in Aberdeen, Monroe county, filed a petition with the corporate authorities, as provided by chap. 39, code 1880. The said county never having held an election under the “ local option” law of 1886, said petition was filed under the provisions of the code, and when published and filed was signed by a majority of the legal…
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Prom the circuit court of Monroe county. HoN. Look E. Houston, Judge. Ledbetter, the appellee, desiring to obtain license to retail intoxicating liquors in Aberdeen, Monroe county, filed a petition with the corporate authorities, as provided by chap. 39, code 1880. The said county never having held an election under the “ local option” law of 1886, said petition was filed under the provisions of the code, and when published and filed was signed by a majority of the legal voters of said city. A counter-petition, signed by appellant and many others, was presented, and a controversy arose before…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
All that has been urged in support of the action of the circuit court, in reversing the order of the municipal authorities of the city of Aberdeen, and granting license to sell vinous and spirituous liquor by retail in Aberdeen, may be admitted, and still the judgment of the circuit court must be reversed, and vacated, and the order of the authorities reinstated.
The circuit court proceeded on an erroneous conception of the admirable law entitled “ An act in relation to the sale of vinous and'spirituous liquors,” in the code of 1880, by which, happily, this case is governed, since it has not…
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