Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — POWER OF ATTORNEY UPHELD. [ARTICLE]

POWER OF ATTORNEY UPHELD.

The Supreme court has handed down a decision in the case of Ludwig vs. Cory carried up from the Hancock Circuit court affirming the decision of th’e lower court, in relation to power of attorney in remonstrating against liquor license applicants. The decision covers two points of law at contest as follows: 1. The legal voters of a township may appoint by written power of attorney persons as their agents without giving or investing them with any discretion whatever in the matter to remonstrance in writing in the place of their said principals against every person applying to the Board of Commissioners of the county for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in such township. And such appointees having accepted the agency conferred upon them, and having, in the name of the voters, their principals, remonstrated against granting a license, such remonstrance is the act of the voters and effective. 2. Such power of attorney may be general so as to authorize the agent to remonstrate in their names against any and all persons who may thereafter apply for license to sell intoxicating liquors.