People v. Matthews
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Quo warranto. Error to the Circuit Court of Mercer County; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1893.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
An information in the nature of a quo warranto was filed in the Circuit Court of Mercer County to test the right of defendant in error to keep a dram shop, in pursuance of a license issued to him by the corporate authorities of the village of Windsor, in said county. It was charged that the license was illegal, for the reason that the bond given under the dram shop act was not signed by two good and sufficient sureties, freeholders of said county, and it was alleged that the sureties, Sol. Frohlich and Henry G-ardt, were both residents of Knox county, and that neither of them was a freeholder…
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