City of Kansas v. Flanders

Defendant was brought before the city recorder, charged with keeping a dramshop contrary to city ordinance, convicted, and appealed to the criminal court of Jackson county, in which court the cause was submitted on an agreed statement of facts, to the effect that defendant, at the time specified in the complaint, had a license from the county, but none from the city, though the previous year he had a license from the city; that he presented to the auditor of the city a petition signed by a majority of the tax-paying citizens in the block and square in which the dramshop was located, tendered…