Cook, Comm., of Revenues v. Consolidated Cs.

The practical effect of the majority opinion is to hold that a permittee, whose permit is not renewed, has a remedy, and that that remedy is by certiorari; but the remedy is unavailing when the Commissioner has refused to renew the permit. “The word of promise is kept to the ears of the permittees, but is broken to their hopes.”

The majority have not seen proper to recite the facts in any of the cases save one only, and not fully so in that case. We are, therefore, left in donbt as to the •extent of the Commissioner’s discretion. The majority do not say that this discretion is absolute and…