Edward W. Smith Estates, Inc. v. O'Dowd

This is a petition for certiorari to review a decision of the liquor control administrator denying and dismissing an appeal by the petitioners from the granting of a class B victualer’s beverage license by the Westerly town council acting as a licensing board. We issued the writ and in response to the mandate thereof the respondent has duly certified the records to this court.

It appears therefrom that on November 5, 1960, Holiday Lanes-Westerly, Inc., a Rhode Island corporation, made application to the Licensing Board of the town of Westerly for a class B victualer’s beverage license, which…