Doyle v. Village of Bradford

This action was brought to recover of defendant a penalty imposed for the violation of a village ordinance regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors. On the trial, both before the justice of the peace and in the circuit court, defendant was found guilty, and judgment rendered against him for $50, and to reverse the judgment of the latter court he brings the case to this court on appeal.

Unless the village is organized under the general incorporation act of 1872, it is conceded it had no authority to pass the ordinance that imposed the penalty sought to be recovered, and as the record…