109 Iowa 534 | Iowa | 1899
A statement of consent to the sale of intoxicating liquors in Winneshiek county, signed by more than 65 per cent, of the voters who- cast their ballot at the general election of 1896, was filed with the county auditor May lf 1897. Due notice of the intention of the board of supervisory to canvass such statement at its January, 1898, session, was!given, and on January 7th of that year this record was made:
“The board then took up the canvass of the liquor petition, completing the same, aftei finding the result to be as-follows:
Townships. Voters. Signers.
Bloomfield. 278 214-
Military .270 321
Wash. 1st.120 116-
“ 2d.'.183 164”1
I. The different townships were entered as above, with the number of voters, and signers. Below “Decorah” and “Calmar,” as “Wash.,” were ditto marks and numerals (1st, 2d, etc.), corresponding to the number of wards. It is said this record is insufficient, and that oral evidence was not admissible to explain its alleged defects or to supply omissions. Section 2450 of the Code requires the'board’s “finding as to the result in the city having over five thousand inhabitants, or the county, as the case may be, and the various towns and townships therein shall be entered of record. And such finding shall be effectual for the purpose herein contemplated until revoked as herein provided.” It was not necessary to add the numbers in each town and township in order to indicate the number in the county, or the relative number of voters and signers.. That was a mere matter of computation, and was indicated quite as definitely by the finding of the number who- voted and signed in each of the precincts. This record was not as full as desirable. But
II. If it be conceded that the law as it formerly stood, has been repealed by the Code, it does not follow that a. statement of consent signed prior to October 1, 1897, could not be considered by the board of supervisors. Section 2449,, in part, reads: “A written statement of general consent-shall be filed with the county auditor, signed by sixty-five-per cent, of all the legal voters who voted at the last preceding election, as shown by the poll books of said election, residing within such county and outside of the corporate-limits of cities having a population of five thousand or over.”’
Ill | The accused acted as agent of the Fred Miller Brewing Company, and thus explains the manner of transacting business: “They send the beer here on the train from the brewery at Milwaukee. Then it is unloaded at the train, unloaded from the refrigerator cars, and put into this cold storage building. Then I take orders at the various saloons and places where beer is sold about the town. When they give the order I gO' to the cold storage and get the beer and deliver it to them. I collect the money for the beer.