Takichi Sakata v. Brown

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

This is a submission upon agreed facts as a substitute for an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the high sheriff to give the plaintiffs certificates that they are competent drivers, they being applicants for licenses to carry passengers for hire, and such certificates being required by the statute as a prerequisite to obtaining such licenses. The plaintiffs had applied to *182the high sheriff for examination and the issuance of such certificates, but the latter, after examining them, refused to grant them such certificates solely “because of their…