Wakeman's Appeal From County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the decision of the county commissioners of Fairfield County in consenting to the transfer of a liquor license, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered affirming the action of the county commissioners, and appeal by the remonstrant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Appeal from the decision of the county commissioners of Fairfield County in consenting to the transfer of a liquor license, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered affirming the action of the county commissioners, and appeal by the remonstrant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. Michael H. Bracken had been duly licensed to sell intoxicating liquors in the town of Fairfield, for the year ending October 31st, 1901. Bracken died December 22d, 1900. About March 6th, 1901, the administratrix of Bracken…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The county commissioners are an administrative board, and the license law treated their action in respect to licenses to sell intoxicating liquors as final and conclusive. La Croix v. County Commissioners, 50 Conn. 321.
“An Act regulating Appeals from Decisions of County Commissioners,” passed in 1893, provided for an appeal to the Superior Court from the action of the commissioners in the matters therein specified. Public Acts of 1893, p. 319. « Such appeal is a process by which the Superior Court is en- ¡i abled to determine the legality of certain specified actions of the county…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Malmo's Appeal From County CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- La Croix v. County CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1882
- Malmo's Appeal From County CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
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