172 Ind. 552 | Ind. | 1909
Appellee was, by the Board of Commissioners
of the County of Blackford, on November 5, 1908, granted a license to sell intoxicating liquors at retail in the fourth ward of Hartford City. On appeal, by remonstrators, to the circuit court, the license was confirmed, from which latter judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
On May 1, and on July 31, 1908, prior to appellee’s application for license, remonstrances by the voters of said fourth ward had been filed with the auditor of the county against the granting of a license to any person or persons to sell intoxicating liquors at retail within the ward, each purporting. to contain the names of a majority of the legal voters of the ward. To each of these remonstrances appellee at the proper time filed a pleading, which he terms an answer, in four paragraphs, the paragraphs of like number, in the answers, being substantially the same.
In the paragraphs numbered one it was alleged that certain named persons, who executed the remonstrance as attorneys in fact for 130 persons whose names appeared on the first remonstrance, and for 151 persons whose names ap
In the paragraphs numbered two it was averred that said alleged attorneys in fact had no legal authority to execute either of said remonstrances for certain named persons set out. In the paragraphs numbered three it was alleged that sixteen persons named in the first remonstrance, and twenty-one in the second, were at the time of signing the same, under the age of twenty-one years, and not legal voters of said ward. In paragraphs numbered four it was alleged that certain names were duplicated. Each answer, at the close, was sworn to before a notary public, in the following terms: “Arthur Guillaume, being duly sworn upon his oath, says that upon information and belief, the matters and facts before set forth in each paragraph are true as he verily believes. ’ ’
Appellant insists that the motion for a new trial should have been granted, because the finding of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and is contrary to law.
It is agreed that 123 was a majority of all the legal voters
In the third paragraph of answer to the May remonstrance, it was charged that sixteen named persons, whose signatures purported to be attached to the instrument filed with the auditor, were not legal voters of the ward at the time of the filing. Appellant admits in his brief that four of the number should not be counted, thus further reducing the remainder to 124.
"We find no error. Judgment affirmed.