State Ex Rel. Baylor v. City of Hinton

Woods, Judge:

This writ is prosecuted from a judgment of the circuit court of Summers County directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the City of Hinton, a corporation, and Hume K. Nolan, city manager, to issue a license to petitioner, L. W. Baylor, to conduct, manage and operate a pool and billard room within the corporate limits of said city.

The answer and return to the alternative writ sets up, among other things, the fact that it was the policy of the city to prohibit pool rooms. This fact was not denied in the special reply.' The several affidavits regarding…