Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — An Important Decision. [ARTICLE]

An Important Decision.

i The appellate Court on Tuesday i banded down a decision on legal publications that is of great interest all over the state. Especially is this true of Jasper county, where attorneys have and still do publish legal notices in the practically obsolete Barnacle, for no other purpose apparently than to prevent the very intention of the law requiring publication—pubI licity. The ca«e decided was taken up from Tippecanoe county, where the lower court held such notice sufficient. In reversing the lower court the Appellate court held:-

1. The publication of notice of an applicant's intention to apply for a saloon license in a single issue of a newspaper published in a distant part of the county, of which paper not a single copy was received by or circulated in the township where the proposed saloon was to be located, except a copy sent to the applicant, was not a sufficient compliance with the law requiring notice of such an application to be given by publication, there being three newspapers published in the county of general circulation through such township, and the purpose and intention of the applicant in the paper that he did being to prevent the voters of such township from remonstrating against granting him a license. 2. Where the law requires notice it is always for the purpose of giving information to the interested parties. 3. Such a law as above stated, published in a newspaper having no circulation among the parties in interest, and which was chosen for the purpose of preventing them from receiving notice, was fraudulent in its purpose and design and therefore void.