112 Mo. App. 447 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1905
Defendant was a bartender in the employ of Wm. H. Barnett, a dramshop keeper, who
The facts are all one way as to defendant selling liquor after the county court had made an order revoking the license. The only defense was that the county
This controversy is settled by the ruling of this court in the case of Barnett v. Pemiscot County Court, supra, where the court said: “Our conclusion is that the county court in revoking the license of appellant, acted in an administrative and ministerial capacity as the agent of the State, exercising the police powers thereof to the end that the business otherwise unlawful, should not be conducted in a manner contrary to the permit theretofore by it granted and that the proceeding contemplated by section 3012 which was had in this case by the county court is in no sense judicial for the reason that no right of life, liberty or property was therein involved nor adjudicated and that there was therefore no case or cause pending in the county court as is contemplated by the statute granting appeal therefrom to the circuit court,” citing Higgins v. Talty, 157 Mo. 280, 57 S. W. 724. The judgment of the circuit court was therefore affirmed, holding that the county court had full power and jurisdiction to revoke said license and that there was no appeal therefrom. This ruling dispenses with the defense set up in the case at bar. The judgment is> therefore affirmed.