Ex parte Yeager
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the May term 1854 of the County court of Mason, Samuel Yeager applied to the court for a license to keep an ordinary at his house in the town of West Columbia, in the county of Mason.
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At the May term 1854 of the County court of Mason, Samuel Yeager applied to the court for a license to keep an ordinary at his house in the town of West Columbia, in the county of Mason. It appeared in evidence that the town of West Columbia is composed principally of a foreign population, amounting to above the number of nine hundred-; and that they are principally engaged in mining coal, and loading and transporting it to Cincinnati; another portion of the population is engaged in the manufacture of salt. The other population in the village are engaged in various trades, such as coopers and…
1Opinion of the CourtDaniel, J.
The legislative provision, on the proper construction of which the questions raised in this case mainly turn, will be found in chapters 38 and 96 of the Code of 1849.
The third section of the first mentioned chapter, p. 443-4 of the Code, provides that for a license to keep a house of entertainment the application shall be, when the house is in a town having a corporation court, to such court, and when it is not in any such town, to the court of the county wherein it is. If the court be of opinion that the applicant is sober and of good character, and will probably keep a house orderly, useful…
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