Benson v. Olson

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court for Madison county affirming the action of the board of trustees of the Tillage of Newman Grove in granting licenses to Fred Benson and Gideon Peterson to sell malt, spirituous and vinous liquors in said village for the license year of 1914.

It appears that on the 24th day of May petitions were presented to the board of trustees, in the usual form in such cases, each signed by some 40 persons, who alleged therein that they were resident freeholders of said village; that the applicants were each of them men of respectable character and…