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Costs In Liquor Suits

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Trom the .Detroit l'ost. Last spring quite a nuinber of liquor prosecutions under the prohibitory law were commenced against liquor sellers in Plyniouth and otlier places in this county, and now arises a very interesting point as to the liability of the county for costs. ïhe law provides that in case of couviction the defendant shall be fined f25 and costs, but in one case the liquor dealer ran away after conviction, leaving the judgment unsatiafied, and the board of county auditors were called upon recently to pay the costs. This they declined to do, eithar in this case or instances where no conviction was secured, upon the ground that the county was not Hable. Subsequently they applied to G. V. N. Lothrop for an cpinion in regard to the matter, and yesterday he subniitted one, sustaining the view taken by the auditors. In summing up bis opinión Mr.. Lothrop says that : 1. Except as to an attorney fee of $10 the costs in suits before justices of the peace, under the prohibitory law are not county charges. 2. That where the suit is instituted by a public ofEcer who is by law required to bring such suits, if judgment is rendered against the people, the costs are charged against the State, payable froni the State Treasury. 3. That where the suit is instituted by a private person the justice niay require suoh person to give security for costs, and should do 80, or he may have no remedy for his costs in case the suit fails.

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Old News
Michigan Argus