Starks v. Presque Isle Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Arthur E. Starks to compel Frank Emerick, circuit judge of Presque Me county, to issue a preliminary injunction in a suit instituted by relator to restrain one Carl Theis, defendant therein, from opening a saloon in the city of Onaway.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
The relator seeks a writ of mandamus from this court to compel the respondent circuit judge to issue an injunction to restrain Carl Theis from conducting a saloon in the city of Onaway, for the reason that it is located within 400 feet from a church.
On the 3d day of June, 1912, the city council approved the application of Carl Theis, and granted him a license to conduct a saloon in the Waldorf Hotel block. On the 11th day of June his bond was approved by the council. Following this action of the council, the prosecuting attorney, on the relation of Arthur E. Starks, filed a bill in *465equity to…
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