State Ex Rel. Barnett v. Sappington

BROADDUS, Judge.

This is a proceeding in mandamus wherein relator, Cecil Barnett, seeks to obtain a peremptory writ against respondents commanding them to issue a permit for the sale of intoxicating liquor in the original package. After a hearing, the trial court quashed the alternative writ. Relator appealed to the Supreme Court. That court held that it was without jurisdiction because no constitutional question had been sufficiently raised or preserved, and transferred the case to this court. See State ex rel. Barnett v. Sappington, Mo.Sup., 260 S.W.2d 669.

Relator owns and operates a drug…