Case Name: White et al. v. Prifogle et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1896-06-19
Citations: 146 Ind. 64
Docket Number: No. 17,817
Parties: White et al. v. Prifogle et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 146
Pages: 64–66

Head Matter:
White et al. v. Prifogle et al.
[No. 17,817.
Filed June 19, 1896.
Rehearing denied Oct. 13, 1896.]
Liquor License. — Remonstrance.—Right of Remonstrators to Withdraw Their Names.- — Under section 9, Acts 1895 (Acts 1895, p. 348), providing for the filing of a remonstrance against the granting of a liquor license, remonstrators have no right to withdraw their names from the remonstrance after the beginning of the three days’ period when the remonstrance is required to be on file, which begins on Friday next preceding the Monday on which a regular session of the board of commissioners begins.
From the Union Circuit Court.
Reversed.
W. A. Ketcham, Attorney-General, T. D. Evans, J. W. Connoway, E. F. Ritter, Duncan, Smith & Hornbrook, and F. E. Matson, for appellants.
G. W. Pigman, R. E. Barnhart, Reuben Conner, L. H. Stanford, Lamb & Beasley, S. R. Hamill, Baker & Daniels, Stuart Bros. & Hammond, Zollars & Worden and Elliott & Elliott, for appellees.

Opinion:
Jordan, J.
The point presented by this appeal for our decision, is the action of the lower court in sustaining the right of certain remonstrators who had joined in a remonstrance under section 9 of the act of 1895 (Acts lS95,p. 248), against granting a license to appellee Prifogle to sell intoxicating liquors, to withdraw their names from the remonstrance, after the beginning of the three days' period, fixed by the statute, and thereby reduce the number of remonstrators below that required by law. This question, in the case of the State v. Gerhardt, 145 Ind. 439, was decided in favor of the contention of appellants herein, and is decisive of the one here presented.
For error of the trial court, in its holding upon this question, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.