Hammond v. Haines
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Cecil county. Petition for a mandamus by the appellant, to compel the appellee, the clerk of the Circuit Court, to issue to him a license to sell spirituous liquors in the borough of North East, in Cecil county. The case is fully stated in the opinion of this Court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Cecil county. Petition for a mandamus by the appellant, to compel the appellee, the clerk of the Circuit Court, to issue to him a license to sell spirituous liquors in the borough of North East, in Cecil county. The case is fully stated in the opinion of this Court. This appeal is from an order of the Court below, ( Price, J".,) overruling a motion of the petitioner to quash the return and for a peremptory mandamus, and de» daring the return of the respondent sufficient, and also discharging the rule to show cause, and dismissing the petition with costs to be…
1Opinion of the CourtWeisel, J.
Yincent Hammond, the appellant, applied, on the 21st day of July, 1864, to the Circuit Court for Cecil county for a mandamus to compel the clerk of that Court, the appellee, to issue to him a license to keep an ordinary in the borough of North East, in that county. The Court passed an order on the appellee to show cause by a day named why the writ should not issue. The cause shewn was, that the General Assembly of Maryland, on the 10th day of March, 1864, passed an Act (chap'. 348,) entitled, “An Act to regulate the -issuing of licenses for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors within…
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