Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-07-10 | Page 10 | Right of Town in Licensing Liquor is before Court

RIGHT Of TOWN IN LICENSING LIQUOR IS BEfORE COURT The question of the ri right ht of a city to lo pass an ordinance ordin restricting the tho sale of intoxicating liquors under tinder the tho liquor law as aa passed by bj the Jast legislature legis lature laturo after tim the town has bas gone on dry at ata a special election is bein being tested in inthe the tho district court The case is that of Prank Frank Hoffman and others of Tooele against Tooele City and the tho officers of that city and andis is being heard hoard by Judge Geor George e G. G Armstrong in the tho district court today Hoffman and several others wore were arrested arrested ar ar- ar rested some time a ago o in Tooele on the tho charge of having violated a n city ordinance nance mince in the sale of liquor They were found guilty before b foro a a. justice of tho peace and appealed the tho case to the district court The claim is made that under the tho liquor m bill as at passed bv by the last legislature legislature legis legis- lature Tooele exceeded its powers in inthe inthe inthe the passage pa of its liquor ordinance that tho the ordinance is in conflict with tso so state l law w. w At tho the same timo time an ani i interesting question is is ls raised raised raised-as as to what rl right ht cities of the first second and third classes have have- under the tho new law Jaw to pass ordinances re regulating the sale salo or or giving i away of intoxicating liquors The case cao i ig is bo boing n defended by City Attorney Baker of ot Tooele who is is assisted assisted assisted as as- by State Senator dan Carl arl A. A BadKer Bader Badger Bad Bad- ger Ker er one ot of the framers of tho the Utah liquor law Jaw