93 Neb. 29 | Neb. | 1913
This is an appeal from an order of the district court for Platte county finding in favor of the applicant, William Steen, for a liquor license.
The appellants, who are remonstrants, make the contention that the judgment of the district court should be reversed because it does not appear from the record that there was a valid village ordinance authorizing the issuance of the license.
In Foley v. State, 42 Neb. 233, we held that municipal corporations will take notice of their own ordinances, since they stand in the same relation, to the municipal laws as do courts of general jurisdiction towards the general laws of the state; and that, on appeal from a judgment of conviction before a police judge for the violation of a city ordinance, the district court will, upon a trial de novo, take notice of whatever facts the former could have noticed judicially before' the removal of the cause. Counsel for appellants, recognizing the rule there announced, seek to escape its application by citing Steiner v. State, 78 Neb.
The remonstrants further objected to the issuance of a license, upon the jurisdictional ground that the petition was not signed by the requisite number of freeholders. The remonstrance recites.: “The names to the said petition are not, and were not, freeholders in any sense at the time of the filing of said petition, so made and constituted for the purpose of becoming signers to said petition, and, if freeholders, were made freeholders for the only and express purpose of permitting them to sign the said petition for the said license.” Under the oft-repeated holdings of this court, the above language amounts to an admission that the signers were freeholders, and an allegation that
Finding no error in the record, the judgment of the district court is
Affirmed.