Polsky v. Atkins

This appeal is presented by Mr. Atkins, as Commissioner of Finance & Taxation, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Davidson County wherein certiorari to an order by the Commissioner denying Polsky a license to sell liquor in Chattanooga had been granted. The trial judge after considering the record as made before the Commissioner held that the Commissioner had before him no competent evidence upon which to refuse this license and as a result held that the Commissioner’s act in refusing the license amounted to an arbitrary action on his part.

The record shows that Polsky had for some six…