Jenkins v. City of Danville
Appellate Court of Illinois
Debt, on a saloon keeper’s bond. Trial in the Circuit Court of Vermilion County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Judgment for plaintiff on demurrer to pleas. Error by defendants.
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Debt, on a saloon keeper’s bond. Trial in the Circuit Court of Vermilion County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Judgment for plaintiff on demurrer to pleas. Error by defendants. The city of Danville, Illinois, sued Albert B. Jenkins, Albert Goetz and Gus Flick, in the Circuit Court of Vermilion County, in an action for debt; the declaration charged that A. B. Jenkins' applied for and was granted a license to keep a dram-shop in the city of Danville, in accordance with the ordinance of the city, which provided that before such license should be granted the person applying…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burroughs
By the pleadings the facts disclosed in this case are, that Albert Jenkins obtained from the city of Danville a license to keep a dram-shop in that city. In addition to the statutory bond, the city required of him and he gave the bond sued upon, which was in the penal sum of $1,000, agreed to be liquidated damages, conditional that Jenkins would observe and keep all the ordinances of the city. There was an ordinance of the city prohibiting the keeping open of dram-shops on Sunday and prescribing a penalty for its violation of not less than $50, nor more than $200. Jenkins violated that…
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