Barnes v. Rhoades
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom St. Joseph Circuit Court; Walter A. Funk, Judge. Application by Park B. Rhoades for license to retail intoxicating liquors, against which Thomas C. Barnes and another remonstrate. Prom a judgment for applicant, remonstrants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJordan, C. J.
This proceeding was originally commenced by appellee before the Board of Commissioners of the County of St. Joseph, to obtain a license to retail intoxicating liquors in the city of South Bend. Appellants filed before the board what is denominated a remonstrance. By this document they alleged that the business of retailing intoxicating liquors was “inherently wrong, unlawful, dangerous to public and private morals,” etc. Por these reasons they assailed the validity of the license statute of 1875, (Acts 1875 [s. s.], p. 55) upon the ground that it violated both the state and federal…
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- Gates v. HawIndiana Supreme Court · 1898