Lester v. Price
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Staunton. Error to judgment of circuit court of Montgomery county, rendered September 23d, 1885, reversing, on the appeal of George Price and others from the decision of the county court of said county rendered September 5th, 1885, changing, under Code 1873, ch. 34, § 7, the location of James Lester’s place of selling liquor by retail under his license at Yellow Sulphur Springs, in said county, to Bang’s, in said county.
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Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Staunton. Error to judgment of circuit court of Montgomery county, rendered September 23d, 1885, reversing, on the appeal of George Price and others from the decision of the county court of said county rendered September 5th, 1885, changing, under Code 1873, ch. 34, § 7, the location of James Lester’s place of selling liquor by retail under his license at Yellow Sulphur Springs, in said county, to Bang’s, in said county. The circuit reversed the decision of the county court, and to its judgment Lester obtained from one of the judges of this court a writ of…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The circumstances of the case are these: At the June term, 1885, of the county court of Montgomery county a license was granted by said court to James Wade'to keep a bar-room at the Yellow Sulphur Springs in said county. By an order of said county court, made at the July term thereof, 1885, said license was transferred from said Wade to J. L. Lester. And on the fifth of September, 1885, said Lester made application to the county court of Montgomery to have said license changed from the Yellow Sulphur Springs to the Alleghany House, at Bangs, in said county; and thereupon George Price and…
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