Cayce v. City of Hopkinsville

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Affirming.

C. H. Cayce owned a lot in Hopkinsville on the northwest corner of Main and Thirteenth streets. The Standard Oil 'Company proposed to purchase the lot at a price agreed on between them if a permit could be obtained from the city for the erection on the lot of a filling station. Cayce and the agent of the Standard Oil Company went before the city authorities and presented an application for the permit. The application was refused on February 9, 1926. On May 18, 1926, Cayce filed this action for a mandamus against the city authorities…