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- Title: Donahue v. City of Portland
- Author : Cumberland Supreme Court of Maine
- Release Date : January 11, 1940
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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On appeal by plaintiff. This bill in equity, filed on June 30, 1938, was brought by the plaintiff, owner and operator of a restaurant, in the City of Portland, engaged in the business of dispensing food, beer and ale, who represents himself as the holder of a state license for the sale of malt beverages, under the provisions of Chap. 268, P. L. 1933, Chap. 201, P. L. 1937, and Chap. 118, P. L. 1939, and lastly, if at all, by virtue of Chapter 160 of the Private and Special Laws of 1917, wherein it is provided that ""The municipal officers of the City of Portland are hereby authorized to grant licenses for the following businesses and purposes for such periods of time and in accordance with such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law, and upon payment by the licensee of such fees as the city council of said city may make and establish by ordinance, to wit: . . . victualers . . ."" Plaintiff complains of unjust treatment of himself and his business under an ordinance, passed October 18, 1937, by the City Council of the City of Portland, being the municipal officers of said City of Portland, which, with omission of no consequence, reads as follows: