In re Ashcraft

This is a mandamus suit. Ash-craft, the petitioner, on July 4, 1915, procured a license from the county court of Jackson county to conduct a dramshop in Lee’s Summit, a city of the fourth class, having less than 2500 inhabitants, and made application to the board of aldermen for a city license. The application was denied and he then applied to the city clerk for a license to open a “beer •depot or storeroom” in the city and tendered $25.50, being $25 for the license and fifty cents for the clerk’s ’fee for issuing it. The clerk, under instructions from the board of alderman, refused the…