In re O'Rourke
New York Supreme Court
Application for a writ of mandamus to compel the mayor of Brooklyn to issue a license to a place of public amusement.
1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.
Though no briefs were submitted, this case is by no means plain. The petitioner applied to the mayor of the city of Brooklyn to license a certain building in the thirty-first ward (formerly the town of Gravesend) for the purpose of public exhibitions and contests in athletic games, including rowing, bicycling, club swinging, fencing, wrestling, boxing, and was refused. The license applied for concededly comes under the head of “places of public amusement,” both in the charter and the ordinances of the city of Brooklyn. The charter act (Chap. 583, Laws 1888, § 12, tit. 2) provides in so many…
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