Krier v. Mayor of Walsenburg

Krier, the plaintiff in error, filed his petition for a peremptory writ of mandamus, giving- notice to respondents. The purpose of the petitioner was to. require Mazzone, the City Clerk, one of the defendants in error, to- issue to- Krier a license to run a moving picture show in the town of Walsenburg-. The petition sets up in full an ordinance of the town passed for the purpose of regulating- the operation of .picture shows. At great length, and with mucht particularity, the ordinance provides the mechanical conditions under which the business of moving picture shows may be operated in…