State ex rel. Hendricks v. Adair County Court

Relators brought mandamus to compel respondents, as judges1 of the county court of Adair county, to grant them a license to maintain five pool tables in the city of Kirksville.

Their petition alleged, in substance, that the application for a license was presented to, taken up, and considered by the county court; that they offered evidence to prove that the applicants were of good moral character and that the place where said tables were proposed to be kept was a fit and proper place for the same; but that said county court refused to hear said evidence, and then and there admitted it was…