C. H. Reed & Co. v. Beall
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Chancery Court of Tishomingo county. TIon. W. D. Bradford, chancellor. No State can pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. Const. IT. S., art. 1, § 10; Const. Miss., art. 1, § 10. Appellants, on 4th September, 1865, obtained a license from the Board of Police of Tishomingo county, Miss., to retail vinous or spirituous liquors in the town of Corinth for twelve months from date.
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Error to the Chancery Court of Tishomingo county. TIon. W. D. Bradford, chancellor. No State can pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. Const. IT. S., art. 1, § 10; Const. Miss., art. 1, § 10. Appellants, on 4th September, 1865, obtained a license from the Board of Police of Tishomingo county, Miss., to retail vinous or spirituous liquors in the town of Corinth for twelve months from date. Corinth had a population less than one thousand. The license was issued in accordance with the provisions and requirements of the Bev. Code, ch. 20, pp.…
1Opinion of the CourtShackelford, C. J.
The appellants filed their bill on the 15th day of June, 1867, in the Chancery Court of Tishomingo county.
The bill alleges, that on the 4th day of September, A.D. 1865, the appellants obtained a license to retail vinous and spirituous liquors in the town of Corinth in said county, a town *478of less than two thousand inhabitants; said license was issued by order of the board of police of said county, and that they paid for the same the sum of two hundred and two and a half dollars, and that it was for the term of twelve months.
That said license was issued under the provisions of the Revised Code,…
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