Wiggins v. Varner

Crawford, Justice.

The sole question to be decided in this case is, whether the ordinary of Schley county is clothed with the power to grant or refuse an application for license to retail spirituous liquors, when the applicant complies with the usual requirements of the law in such cases.

Under the law as it existed prior to the Code, it was held that the inferior courts were not allowed in their discretion to withhold such license when the terms of the *584law had been complied with. In that decision, 15 Ga., 413, this court said that it regretted more than the judges were able to express that the…