Phillips v. City of Tecumseh

Lake, Oh. J.

This action was brought in the court below by the plaintiff in error, as county treasurer, to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned by reason of the failure of the town, and city authorities of the city of Tecumseh, to charge and collect for licenses to sell intoxicating liquors, at as high a rate as that fixed by the county commissioners.

It is alleged that the board of commissioners, at their session on the 11th day of February, 1873, ordered “ that each and every applicant for a license to sell ■ malt, spirituous and vinous liquors within the county, for the period of…