Stokes v. Wall

Stokes presented a petition for certiorari to the judge of the superior courts of the Chattahoochee circuit. The petition alleged, that L. W. Wall, agent, applied to the mayor and council of the town of Buena Vista for a license to sell liquor therein; that Stokes appeared at the meeting of the town council when the license was granted, and objected to the granting of the same, upon the ground that Wall had not obtained the consent of two thirds of the citizen-freeholders of the town that a license be granted him; that Wall only had a “simple petition signed by several parties who were not…