Corbett v. Duncan
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County. Hon. S. H. Terral, Judge. On the 30th day of May, A. D. 1885, Cornelius Corbett presented to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Meridian a petition, as follows, to wit: “ The undersigned citizens and legal voters of the city of Meridian respectfully recommend Cornelius Corbett as a suitable and sober person to retail vinous and spirituous liquors, at his place of business on the northwest corner of Johnson and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County. Hon. S. H. Terral, Judge. On the 30th day of May, A. D. 1885, Cornelius Corbett presented to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Meridian a petition, as follows, to wit: “ The undersigned citizens and legal voters of the city of Meridian respectfully recommend Cornelius Corbett as a suitable and sober person to retail vinous and spirituous liquors, at his place of business on the northwest corner of Johnson and Sidney Streets. We recommend him as being a person of good moral character, and pray that he be granted license therefor…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
Section 1103 of the Code of 1880 authorizes one or more legal voters of any town or city in which license'is sought to be obtained to retail vinous or spirituous liquors to interpose his or their objections to the grant of such license, by exhibiting a counter petition to the proper authorities. It is not necessary that counter petitions shall be signed by a majority of the legal voters of such towns. Where it is sought to prevent the issuance of a license to any party whatever, during a period of twelve months after the presentation *88of a petition, it is then necessary to have a majority of…
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