State Ex Rel. Peterson v. City of Alexandria

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

Appeal from a .judgment entered pursuant to findings and order. Hereafter we shall refer to appellant as “plaintiff” and to the city of Alexandria as the “city.”

The record establishes the following facts: Plaintiff was licensed under an ordinance authorizing and regulating the sale of nonintoxicating malt liquors, commonly known as 3.2 beer. Later, while operating under such license, specifically on October 12 and again on October 19, 1940, he permitted whiskey to be sold in his place of business by a bootlegger, this being done “openly and promiscuously.” The…