Michigan Supreme Court, 1888

Keefer v. Common Council

Keefer v. Common Council
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided May 18, 1888
1 McGrath 1262; 70 McGrath 413

Keefer v. Common Council

Opinion of the Court

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.

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