State ex rel. Village of Excelsior v. District Court
Supreme Court of Minnesota
On the relation of the village of Excelsior, the state obtained from the supreme court an alternative writ prohibiting the district court for Hennepin county, Honorable William H. Donahue, Judge, and the contestant, Fred W. Hawkins, from proceeding under an order of the district court directing a recount of the votes cast on March 9, 1909, on the question of issuing licenses for the sale- of intoxicating liquor at the village of Excelsior.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
At the annual election held in and for the village of Excelsior in March, 1909, the question of licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors was submitted to popular vote. A canvass of the votes cast at the election disclosed, as reported by the election officers, ninety one *438votes in favor and ninety two against license. Thereafter a contest was instituted by an elector of the village, under section 336, R. R. 1905, and was pending and about to be brought to a final hearing in the district court, when relator sued out this writ of prohibition to restrain further proceedings in the contest, on…
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