Drapert v. State

Paul Drapert, of the city of Richmond, Indiana, applied to the commissioners of Wayne county, at one of their regular sessions, for a license to retail spirituous liquors on a certain lot, upon a certain street, in said city. He proved publication of notice.

One Edwin M. Cook availed himself of the privilege, allowed by statute to any and every citizen of the township, to remonstrate against granting license to Paul, because of his unfitness to conduct the business of retailing; but the board of commissioners, being satisfied that Paul had the moral fitness required by the statute, granted the…