Lydick v. Korner

On the seventeenth of August, 1881, the'city council of Falls City passed an ordinance authorizing the issuing of licenses to sell intoxicating liquor, the amount required for the license being $500. On the twenty-sixth of that month, the plaintiff filed his petition and bond for license with the city clerk of that place, and paid the defendant, as city treasurer, the sum of $500 for the license. On the third of September a remonstrance was filed with said clerk opposing the issuing of license to the plaintiff. A number of witnesses were examined before tbe city council in support of the…