Inhabitants of Town of Fredericktown v. Fox
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Madison Circuit Court. — Hon. John H. Nicholson, Judge. The statement in this action was as follows: Plaintiff states that it, being a municipal corporation, organized, created, and existing under and by virtue of the General Statutes of Missouri for many years continuously last past, under the corporate name arid style of “The Inhabitants of the Town of Fredericktown,” in the county of Madison, and state of Missouri, did, on or about the 29th day of November, 1879,…
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Error to Madison Circuit Court. — Hon. John H. Nicholson, Judge. The statement in this action was as follows: Plaintiff states that it, being a municipal corporation, organized, created, and existing under and by virtue of the General Statutes of Missouri for many years continuously last past, under the corporate name arid style of “The Inhabitants of the Town of Fredericktown,” in the county of Madison, and state of Missouri, did, on or about the 29th day of November, 1879, through its duly constituted, elected, and appointed authorities, by its by-laws, regulations, and ordinances, which…
1Opinion of the Court
Ewing-, C.
This was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace, in Madison county, under section 5019 of the Revised Statutes, 1879, to recover a fine from the defendant for keeping a dramshop within half a mile of the corporate limits of the town of Fredericktown, and selling intoxicating liquors without having a license therefor. On appeal to the circuit court there was a trial die novo before the court, a jury being waived, and a *64judgment for the defendant, whereupon the plaintiff brings the ease here on writ of error.
To sustain the allegations of the complaint the plaintiff read in…
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