Hicks v. Board of Trustees

This is a certiorari proceeding to review the action of the circuit judge in granting a mandamus against the respondent compelling it to accept a liquor bond. The village has about eight hundred inhabitants. The relator owns a hotel situated on the land described in section 3 of Act No. 532, Local Acts 1907, approved May 8, 1907. The act reads:

“An act to authorize and empower the board of trustees of the village of Perry in Shiawassee county, Michigan, to accept surety company bonds in lieu of the bonds required of liquor dealers under act three hundred thirteen of the public acts of eighteen…