Mayo v. James
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal, by the mayor of the city of Richmond, from a judgment of the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, in a case of prohibition. The facts are stated in the opinion of Judge Moncure.
1Opinion of the CourtMoncure, J.
In September 1853 Clinton James, a free negro, presented a petition to the judge of the Circuit court for the city of Richmond, stating that he had been unlawfully prosecuted before the mayor of said city for a. violation of an ordinance thereof, providing that ‘ ‘no negroes shall keep a cook-shop *within said city, ’ ’ under the penalty of stripes, at the discretion of the mayor; and that he had been duly licensed to keep a cook-shop under the provisions of the act of assembly of April 17th, 1853, Sess. Acts, p. 20, § 4, insisting that the said ordinance is in conflict with the said act of…
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