Gates v. Haw

This was an application to the board of commissioners of Hancock county by the appellees to obtain a license to sell intoxicating liquor in a less quantity than a quart at a time to be drank on the premises. From the determination of said board there was an appeal to the circuit court. The appellants remonstrated on the ground, among others, that the room in which it was proposed to conduct such saleswas so situated and constructed as that such sales therein would violate the fourth section of the Nicholson law. Acts 1895, p. 250. A trial of the case in the circuit court resulted in a finding…