Case ID: ind_16/html/0337-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The City of Lawrenceburg v. Wuest.
    
      Saturday, June 8.
    
    Cities are vested by the general law for their incorporation with power to exact, by ordinance, a license for retailing intoxicating liquors within their limits; and such ordinance would be consistent with the general laws of the State.
    APPEAL from the Dearborn Circuit Court.
    
      B. J. Spooner and J. Schwartz, for the appellant.
    
      Garter Cazlay, for the appellees.
   Per Curiam.

Cities are vested by the general law for their incorporation in this State, with power to exact by ordinance a license for the prosecution of the business of retailing intoxicating liquors within their limits. And such ordinance would be consistent with the general laws of the State. Waldo v. Wallace, 12 Ind. 581, et seq.; Anderson v. The Kerns Draining Co., 14 Ind. 199; Thomasson v. The State, 15 Ind. 449; Smith v. The City of Madison, 7 Ind. 86.

The judgment is reversed, with costs. Cause remanded to be dismissed.