Cowley v. Town of Rushville

On the 11th day of January, 1878, an affidavit was filed before a justice of Rushville township, which affidavit seems to have been used as the foundation of this action, in favor of the appellee as plaintiff, against the appellant as defendant.

In this affidavit it was charged, that the appellant, “ on the 7th day of January, 1878, at and in the county of Rush, and State of Indiana, and within the limits of said town of Rushville, did then and there unlawfully sell to one Aaron Ilagerman one gill of intoxicating liquor, called whiskey, for the price of ten cents, for the purpose of being…