State ex rel. Coleman v. Everhardy

The state, on the relation of the attorney-general, brought this suit to oust Peter Everhardy from the office of mayor of the city of Leavenworth, upon the ground that, having knowledge that many persons were constantly engaged in keeping and maintaining saloons, tippling-houses and dram-shops within the city where intoxicating liquors were openly and flagrantly sold in violation of the prohibitory liquor law, and that the city, of which he was the chief officer, was receiving, through pretended fines and forfeited bail in simulated prosecutions, the sum of $50 every month from each of the…