Harrison v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Mandamus, to compel the issuing of a dram-shop license. Appeal from the Superior Court of CookCounty; the Hon. Marcus Kavanagh, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sears
John Boetter, as relator, filed his petition in the Superior Court of Cook County for a writ of mandamus to compel Carter H. Harrison, mayor of the city of Chicago, to issue to the relator a license to keep a dram-shop at numbers 887 to 897 East Fifty-first street, located in that part of the city of Chicago which was formerly the village of Hyde Park.
The respondent, Mayor Harrison, answered the petition, admitting some of the allegations of the petition and denying others.
Upon replication to the answer the cause went to trial and the issues of fact raised were submitted to the court.
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