107 Mo. App. 213 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1904
On October 23, 1903, William J. Carrigan filed in the clerk’s office of the county court of.Washington county, Missouri, the following petition:
“State of Missouri, county of Washington, ss.
“In the county court. November term, 1903.
“To the honorable the county court of said county:-
“Tour applicant, being desirous of keeping a dram-shop at Potosí in said county, respectfully applies for a license to keep a dramshop at said place for the period of six months, in accordance with the statute in such ease made and provided.
“William J. Carrigan,
“Applicant.”
“petition eor license eor dramshop keeper.
“State of Missouri, county of Washington, ss.
“In the county court. November term. A. D., 1903.
‘ ‘ To the honorable county court of said county:
“The undersigned, your petitioners, assessed taxpaying citizens and guardians of minors owning property in the city of Potosí, in said county, respectfully petition and ask your honorable body to grant a license to William J. Carrigan to keep a dramshop at his stand on part of lot 19, Old Village Mine a Breton, now Potosí,
“Signed.
“Petitioners’ Names. Petitioners’ Names.”
On November 5, at the November term, 1903, the county court on said petition made the following order:
“State of Missouri, county of Washington, ss.
“November Term, 1903.
“In the county court of said county, on the fifth day of November, 1903, the following, among other proceedings, were had, viz:
“Now at this day comes Wm. Carrigan and presents to the court here an application in writing and a petition to keep a dramshop at his stand on part of lot 19, Old Village of Mine a Breton, now Potosi, Washington county, Missouri, which being examined by the court is found to contain a majority of the assessed taxpaying citizens of said town of Potosi. It is therefore ordered by the court said petition be accepted and approved and that a license be granted to the said Wm. Carrigan to keep a dramshop aforesaid. ’ ’
A license was issued to Carrigan on the above order to keep a dramshop for a period’ of six months.
On April 21, 1904, the relator, Edward C. Crow, attorney-general, filed in this court a petition asking that a writ of certiorari directed to the respondents, justices of the county court, commanding said court to send before this court the records and proceedings in respect to the order granting a license to Carrigan to keep a dramshop and prayed that the license issued to Carrigan be declared null and void. To the writ issued upon the petition, the respondents, as justices of the county court of Washington county, have returned to us a transcript of all the records and proceedings pertaining to the application of said Carrigan for a dramshop license. This court takes judicial notice that Potosi is a city with less than two thousand inhabitants. In cities