Legal Opinion

Rickart v. People

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1875PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. H. H. Cody, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scott

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace, on complaint under oath, to recover the fine imposed for a violation of the second section of the act entitled “Dram Shops,” to provide for licensing of and against the evils arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors. That section makes it unlawful for any person not having a license to keep a dram shop, either by himself or another, to sell intoxicating liquors of any kind in a less quantity that one gallon, or in any quantity to be drank on the premises, or in anv adjacent room or place, and subjects the offender to fine and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McCutcheon v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1873

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. PomphretMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
  2. People v. SouleMichigan Supreme Court · 1889
  3. State v. . LockyearSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
  4. People ex rel. Stevenson v. Law & Order ClubIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
  5. State ex rel. Bell v. St. Louis ClubSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894

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