The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
COUNTY COURT.
The Linton Dram Shop Lii
cense Case Called and
Continued.
The Usual Amount OF Routine
Business Transacted by
the Court.

sion yesterday; all of the justices present.
A dram shop license was ordered issued
to George T. Brown, of the Garrison house,
for the ensuing six months.
1t was ordered ttat hereafter the court
shall grant no dram shop license on any
new application ther. for until the petit.
toner or applicant shall satisfy the court
by evidence in addition to his affidavit that
said license should be granted.
The case of A. c. Linton, about which
much has already been said and written,
next came up. The court at a previous
session of the present term had granted a
license to Mr.. Linton to keep a dramshop
on East Fifth street. in block six. Subse-
quently a remOnstrance was filed by the
property owners and residents i'm the block
against the granting Of such license, and it
is charged that only a very few of the sig.
natures on Linton's petition are those of
bona fide tax payers. Accordingly the re-
mOnstrators, by their counsel. Messrs. Will
krrsOn and Hoffman, moved that the
license be revoked, not only on
the ground that the sigma
lures attached to the petition were
not those of tax paving citizens, but that
the correct number of the block was not
Mr.. A. &. Scott appeared for the petit
court held that as the law had not been
complied with in several essential par
ticulsrs, the license should be revoked.
The following order Of court was issued:
ut is ordered By the court that the dram
shop license issued to A. G. Linton, on the
second day of this term, be and is hereby
revoked, it being shown to the court that
said application is irregular and not made
in accordance with law"
Mr.. Frank Houston appeared
as the representative of number of citi-
Gems interested in the new court house pro-
ject. Mr.. Houston requested that the
court appoint time at which the question
could lie fully heard, giving the advocates
of the several schemes abundant opportu-
nifty to address the court. In compliance
with this request, the hour of O'Clock
this afternoon was designated by the court
for the consideration of the court house
question.
A number of warrants were allowed, and !
some other unimportsnt business trans
acted, when court adjourned to meet this
at 9 o'clock.
The question of the dram shop license
heretofore granted to Mr.. A. c. Linton was
taken up and argued at some length
by the counsel on each side, Mr.. F. A.
Sampson appearing for the demonstrators
ard Col. W. w. s. Snoddy and A. C. Scott
for the petitioners.
Ii will be remembered by the readers OF
the BAZoO that the court yesterday revoked
the licens. OF Linton, but gave him an OPP
portuniiy to renew his petit
ton. II was understood by the
that this renewal would |
mean a new petition, but it was not so
by the court. The clerical error
in giving the name of the block was cor
recied, after which the petition was again |
presented to the court The attorneys for |
u q demonstrators objected to this course of
procedure, but were overruled. A lengthy |
discussion then ensued as to which was the |
proper assessment list to guide the action
Of the court, the statute providing that it |
shall be the last previous annual assess |
ment." Finally the last previous annual |
was decided by the court to be |
that Of the present assessment being made |
by Assessor Caldwell.
After comparing the list of taxpaying |
citizens on the petition with those on the |
it was found that the petit. |
TONERS were largely 10 the majority, most |
Of those signing the remons,rance being |
In this connection it may |
not be amiss to state that the law requires |
that the signers either to petition or a
shall be taxpaying citizens, |
residing or doing business in the block.