Holmes v. Board of Supervisors

Appellants operate a restaurant or cafe outside the municipality of Hattiesburg in Forrest County in which they are licensed to sell beer. The board of supervisors, pursuant to the authority of Code 1942, Section 10224, as amended by Chapter 133 of the Laws of 1944, forbade the sale of beer throughout the county, save within municipal limits, between the hours of 11 p. m. Saturday until 8 a. m. Monday.

Appellants sought by a petition for writ of prohibition to forbid the enforcement against them of such order by the board and by the sheriff. The validity of the order is thus attacked. The…