In re Excise License

Several applications for certiorari and mandamus having been made and declined, it is proper that the rule regulating the granting of such writs should be stated.

The object of the act of 1892 (chapter 401) was not to convert the courts into excise boards, but merely to require a review of their action where an application for a license has been by such boards arbitrarily denied, or denied without good or solid reasons therefor. Section 24. In the two cases reviewed by this court the refusal to .grant the licenses was placed exclusively on the construction of the statute respecting which the…