Case ID: ohio-np-ns_1/html/0336-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McNeill, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL NEED NOT BE READ ON DIFFERENT DAYS.
    [Probate Court of Hamilton County.]
    Kumpf v. Village of Delhi et al.
    Decided, July 28, 1902.
    The three readings of the resolution of council prohibiting the sale or the keeping of a place where intoxicating liquors are sold, under the Beal Law, need not be on three different days.
    W. W. Pease, for the plaintiff.
    
      Nelson Sayler, for the village.
   McNeill, J.

In an oral decision in this case, Judge McNeill held it is not necessary that the three readings of the resolution of council, ordering 'an election under the Beal Law, be had on three different days. This conclusion was reached from the fact that the law so far as council is concerned is mandatory, and there being no discretion for council to exercise, the reason for the readings on different days mo longer obtains. Moreover, should the resolution be left to its regular course, bringing the readings one week apart, the time consumed with the preliminaries of the election would be thirty-five days, while thirty days is all that is allowed under the law. This would render the law nugatory unless the action of council were hastened in the manner winch was done in this case.