Potter v. Common Council
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applied by petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the common council of the village of Homer to approve a liquor dealer’s bond. An order to show cause was granted to which respondent made a return which was demurred to by relator for insufficiency.and for other causes set forth in the demurrer. The remaining facts are stated in the opinions.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
On the seventeenth day of June, 1885, an alternative order was granted by this Court requiring respondents to approve the liquor bond presented to them for approval by relator, or to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue to compel such approval. This order was made on a showing that the respondents had fixed the penalty for such bonds at_ $5,000 ; that relator, being engaged in the business of selling liquors, presented to respondents, on May 4, 1885, a bond in due form, signed by himself, and by Edwin Potter and Thomas Rainey, residents and freeholders of Homer, and having…
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