Brown v. Porter

Andrew J. Porter petitioned the board of commissioners' of Montgomery county for a license to sell intoxicating liquors. John S. Brown and others remonstrated. The board, on a hearing of the cause, granted the license. v

The remonstrants appealed to the circuit court, where the appeal was dismissed because the remonstrants were not shown, in the remonstrance, to have been inhabitants of the township'in which the liquors were proposed to be sold; leave to amend the remonstrance in this particular being refused. The remonstrants appeal to this court.

The second section of the act of 1861, on this…