State v. Harvey

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellee Harvey, doing business as a retail liquor dealer at Seymour, Texas; executed, March 26, 1894, with the other appellees as sureties, the bond declared upon in this case. The breaches alleged consisted of several sales of .liquor to minors. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, without a jury, and a recovery denied upon the ground that the local option law was in force in the Seymour precinct of Baylor County when the bond was made and approved.

The correctness of this decision depends upon the effect to be given certain local option elections…