State v. Cooke
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The defendant was arrested and tried before a justice of the peace for the offence of selling intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of the city of Rochester, on May 10,1877, contrary to the provisions of section 3, c. 34, Sp.
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The defendant was arrested and tried before a justice of the peace for the offence of selling intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of the city of Rochester, on May 10,1877, contrary to the provisions of section 3, c. 34, Sp. Laws 1876. It appeared, upon the trial, that on April 3, 1877, an election was held in the city of Rochester, pursuant to the said chapter, and it was then determined, in the manner therein provided, that no licenses should be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said city, either by the common council or the board of county commissioners. To…
1Opinion of the CourtC-tt.rtt.t.an, C. J.
The charter of the city of Eochester, as amended in 1867, provided (Sp. Laws 1867, p. 135, § 1) that the common council might “grant licenses for vending or dealing in spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors, ” and might “restrain and prohibit any person from vending, giving, or ■dealing in spirituous, vinous, fermented, mixed, or intoxicating liquors of any kind, and impose such restrictions or prohibitions by fine or imprisonment. ” To the police power thus vested in the council no valid objection can be made. Under it the council might determine that no person should be permitted to deal…
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