Village of Mount Pleasant v. Vansice
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Isabella. Complaint under village ordinance. Judgment was given for respondent. The Legislature can delegate to a municipal corporation its authority to control traffic in liquors, Flint d Fentonville P. B. Go. v. Woodhull 25 Mich. 99; Hoyt v. Jeffers 30 Mich. 181; Attorney General v. Com. Council 29 Mich. 108; Whipple v. Saginaw Ciro.
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Error to Isabella. Complaint under village ordinance. Judgment was given for respondent. The Legislature can delegate to a municipal corporation its authority to control traffic in liquors, Flint d Fentonville P. B. Go. v. Woodhull 25 Mich. 99; Hoyt v. Jeffers 30 Mich. 181; Attorney General v. Com. Council 29 Mich. 108; Whipple v. Saginaw Ciro. Judge 26 Mich. 342; Perdue v. Ellis 18 Ga. 586 ; State v. Gwrney 37 Me. 156; East St. Loids v. Wehrung 46 111. 392; Goddard v. Jacksonville 15 111. 588; Gardner v. People 20 111. 430; Pekin v. Smelzel 21 111. 464; Strauss v. Pontiac 40 El. 301; Bennett…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
The defendant was fined fifty dollars and costs by a justice of the peace, and ordered to be imprisoned sixty days in case of non-payment, for the violation of an ordinance of the village making provision for granting licenses for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and ordaining that violations should constitute misdemeanors punishable by fines, and in ease of nonpayment, by imprisonment. He appealed, and the circuit judge directed an acquittal. The village alleges error.
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