90 Neb. 732 | Neb. | 1912
Edward Shank applied to the trustees of the village of Silver Creek, in Merrick county, for a saloon license. A remonstrance was filed, and upon hearing the board granted the license. Upon appeal to the district court the action of the village board was affirmed, and the remonstrators have appealed to this court.
The abstract does not show, so far as we have noticed, the number of signers upon the applicant’s petition, but ft states that the remonstrance alleged that H. N. Wilson, Percy Reed, B. B. Bond, and Lewis Cotton, signers upon the petition, “each was not a bona fide resident freeholder of the village of Silver Creek, but had been wrongfully and frauduiently made to appear as a freeholder for the purpose of signing the petition of the applicant”; and the remonstrance also alleged that the applicant had violated the provision of the Slocumb law within the past year, and denied that the applicant was a man of respectable standing and character. The abstract also shows that the re
The remonstrants contend in their brief that other petitioners were also disqualified. We have examined the evidence contained in the abstract as to the qualifications of the other petitioners, and cannot find from that evidence that the findings of the village board and the dis-. trict court are not sufficiently sustained by the evidence.
The applicant was called as a witness by the remonstrants, and testified that for some three years prior to his application he had been engaged in conducting a livery stable and a restaurant at Osceola, and that while in the restaurant business he had a government revenue license and sold some malt beer; that he quit the restaurant business July 1, 1910, and had not sold malt beer within the year last past. . The statute provides that, if the applicant has violated the provision of the liquor law within the year last past, the village board shall refuse the license. There is no evidence, as shown by the abstract, that this applicant had violated the law within the year prior to his application, and that allegation of the remonstrants was not sustained by the evidence.
Upon this evidence, we think that the action of the village board is not so clearly wrong as to require a reversal, and the judgment of the district court is
Affirmed.