Starr v. Blatner

— The petition of plaintiff shows that on the fifteenth day of January, 1887, the defendant S. L. Crook applied to the board of supervisors of Marion county for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors in the town of Dunreath, for mechanical, culinary and sacramental purposes. To obtain such permit a bond was given and approved, of which the following is a copy: “Know all men by these presents that I, S. L. Crook, * * * as principal, and G. M. Blatner, W. H. George and J. D. Norris, * * * as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the county of Marion, in the state of Iowa, for the use of the…