Divine v. Board of Trustees

This is a proceeding in certiorari to review the action of the circuit court of Montcalm in granting a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to approve of the liquor bond of the relator. The relator is the keeper of an hotel at Lakeview, in which there is a bar where liquor is sold. In April, 1899, he presented to the respondents a liquor bond in the sum of $3,000, with Mr. Bale and Mr. Peterson as sureties. A motion was made to accept the bond. Three of the trustees voted affirmatively and three in the negative. The president of the village voted in the negative and the board refused to…