Burnham Hotel v. City of Cheyenne

Blume, Justice.

These two cases involve identical questions. Both were brought against the City of Cheyenne to recover unearned license money under liquor-licenses issued to plaintiffs by the county of Laramie and the City of Cheyenne in the *462early part of 1919 and which became inoperative at midnight of June 30, 1919, when the so-called prohibition act passed by the Legislature at its session in 1919 went into effect, at which time only a part of the period of the licenses in question had run. The pro tanto amount for the unexpired terms of the licenses is sought to be recovered herein. The…