Carman v. Johnson
Carman v. Johnson
Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a judgment of the district court for Red Willow county affirming an order of the city council of
The bond in the instant case contains the same infirmities as existed in the undertaking referred to in In re Clyde, ante, p. 537. Remonstrants’ objections thereto were not as definite as. those interposed in the Clyde case, but they were sufficient to warn the applicant that his bond was challenged as not complying with the law. At the close of applicant’s testimony his counsel offered to amend the bond in any particular, if remonstrants would state the defect therein. The record is silent as to remonstrants’ conduct, but it may be assumed that no further specifications, oral or otherwise, were made concerning the bond. If no one other than the applicant and remonstrants were interested in said transaction, and a bond conditioned in all particulars as the statute directs was not a jurisdictional fact in the case, there might be some justice in holding that thereby all objections to the bond were waived, but m the instant case the undertaking was for the benefit of all persons who might have occasion to sue thereon, possibly for the protection of infants then unborn, and, under the circumstances of this case, the objection to the bond, in our judgment, was sufficient. The statute plainly indicates the form of, and conditions to be inserted,in, a liquor bond, and the applicant was not entitled to the counsel of his adversary. For the reasons given in the Glyde case, we hold that the city council wrongfully directed that a license should issue to Mr. Johnson, that the district court was confined to a consideration. of the record certified to it by said council in the matter of said application, and that its judgment affirming the action of the city council and permitting the filing of an amended bond was erroneous.
We therefore recommend that the judgment of the district court be reversed and that the cause be remanded, with directions to that court to enter judgment reversing
By the Court: For the reasons stated in the foregoing opinion, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded, with directions to that court to enter judgment reversing the order of the city council and revoking the license granted to Johnson.
Reversed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- In re William Y. Johnson. M. B. Carman v. William Y. Johnson
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