Bridgeport Malleable Iron Company's Appeal From County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by a taxpayer from a decision of the County Commissioners of Fairfield County authorizing a liquor licensee to remove his business from Main Street to Gregory Street in the city of Bridgeport, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, where a demurrer to a plea in abatement filed by the licensee was overruled (Case, J.) and afterward the plea was sustained and the appeal dismissed (Burpee, J.), from which the taxpayer appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
It was suggested upon the argument, by counsel for the appellee, that no appeal is allowed by statute from a decision of the county commissioners granting the transfer of a licensed business from one place to another; that this appeal was therefore wholly unwarranted in law; that the Superior Court had no jurisdiction of it, and should have dismissed it for that reason; and that.as a consequence the appellant was not harmed by the court’s dismissal of the appeal, even if its rulings which are complained of in the reasons of appeal were erroneous. It will be well to consider this claim at the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Norwalk Street Railway Company's AppealSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
- Moynihan's Appeal From County CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1903
- Hayden v. Fair Haven & Westville RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
- Burns' AppealSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
- Wakeman's Appeal From County CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Cromwell v. JacksonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1947
- Demond v. Liquor Control CommissionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1943
- Ward School Bus Manufacturing, Inc. v. FowlerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
- Ward School Bus Manufacturing, Inc. v. FowlerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977