Bean v. County Court
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from, the Barton Circuit Court. — How. D. P. Stratton, Judge. Statement of the case by the court. This was an action for mandamus commenced by the relator, against respondent — the county court of Barton county, Missouri — to require it to grant to relator a license to keep a dramshop in the city of Lamar, a city of the fourth class, containing twenty-five hundred inhabitants, and more, in Barton county, Missouri.
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Appeal from, the Barton Circuit Court. — How. D. P. Stratton, Judge. Statement of the case by the court. This was an action for mandamus commenced by the relator, against respondent — the county court of Barton county, Missouri — to require it to grant to relator a license to keep a dramshop in the city of Lamar, a city of the fourth class, containing twenty-five hundred inhabitants, and more, in Barton county, Missouri. The relator presented his petition to the county court, which was in due form, signed by two-thirds of the taxpaying citizens of the block in said city (whereon such dramshop…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
I. The main feature of this controversy, to-wit, the sufficiency or insufficiency of the published notice, whether or not the publication thereof .in a newspaper beginning with December 22,1887, and ending January 12, 1888, the election being held January 13, 1888, twenty-two days after the first publication, is settled by State ex rel. v. Tucker, 32 Mo. App. 620. We hold now, as was held there, that this notice does not fill the requirements of section 3 of the law known as the “ local option” law. Acts of 1887, p. 181. Some other points have, however, been presented in this case which it…
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