Case Name: KEEFER vs. COMMON COUNCIL (Hillsdale)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1888-05-18
Citations: 1 McGrath 1262
Docket Number: 
Parties: KEEFER vs. COMMON COUNCIL (Hillsdale),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 1262–1262

Head Matter:
KEEFER vs. COMMON COUNCIL (Hillsdale),
70 M., 413.

Opinion:
To compel respondent to approve of relator's bond as a retail liquor dealer.
Granted May 18, 1888.
The case involved the validity of proceedings taken under Act No. 197, Laws of 1887, to prohibit the sale of liquor, and it was held that said act was invalid, because its object was to prohibit, and that object is not expressed in the title "to regulate." Kuled by In re Llauck, 70 M., 396.