Olmstead v. Crook
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from judgment of Hon. Leroy F. Box, presiding in the Circuit Court of Calhoun, refusing to grant mandamus to Hon. Emmett F. Crook, judge of probate of said county, requiring him to issue to the petitioner, Percy Olmstead, a license to retail spirituous liquors at a designated place within the limits of .the city of Anniston.
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Appeal from judgment of Hon. Leroy F. Box, presiding in the Circuit Court of Calhoun, refusing to grant mandamus to Hon. Emmett F. Crook, judge of probate of said county, requiring him to issue to the petitioner, Percy Olmstead, a license to retail spirituous liquors at a designated place within the limits of .the city of Anniston. Judge Crook refused to grant a license to the petitioner, on the ground that a local prohibitory law, approved December 7th, 1886, was in force in Anniston; and Judge Box, approving that decision, refused to grant a mandamus. The appeal is prosecuted under the…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
The appeal is taken from an order of the judge of the seventh judicial circuit, denying appellant’s application for a mandamus to compel the probate judge of Calhoun county to issue to him a license to retail spirituous liquors within the corporate limits of the city of Anniston, *231The application to the probate judge substantially conformed to the general laws regulating the manner in which such licenses may be obtained; and was refused by the judge of probate on the sole ground, that the sale of such liquors in Calhoun county is prohibited by law. The appeal brings ■for consideration the…
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