State ex rel. Farrell v. Howe
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit, court for Douglas county: A. J. YiNje, Circuit Judge. The relator applied to the city council of the city of Superior in 1895 for a license for the ensuing license year for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said city.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit, court for Douglas county: A. J. YiNje, Circuit Judge. The relator applied to the city council of the city of Superior in 1895 for a license for the ensuing license year for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said city. Such proceedings were thereafter duly had that such application was granted, and thereupon the applicant paid to the city treasurer of said city the sum of $200 as license money, upon the theory that such sum was the required amount to be paid in such cases. If such sum was sufficient, the applicant complied with all the conditions…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The charter of the city of Superior, prior to the constitutional amendment prohibiting the amendment of such charters by a special act, provided that the license fee for the sale of intoxicating liquors in such city should •be “ not less than $500, any general law of the state to the ■contrary notwithstanding.” Such provision existed at the times covered by the proceedings involved in this case, and govern the subject, unless changed by ch. 286, Laws of 1893, hereafter mentioned. Sec. 1548, R. S., as amended by ch. 296, Laws of 1885, provided that the license fee for the sale of intoxicating…
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