Lodge v. Fletcher

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the defendants, members of the board of aldermen of Chicopee, from proceeding with a hearing or investigation of conduct of the petitioners as members of the licensing board of said city, appointed under the provisions of the R. L. c. 100, § 3. The case was heard before a single justice upon the petition, answer, and an agreed statement of facts, and, after ruling that a writ of prohibition should not issue, he reserved the case for the full court. All the averments of matters of fact contained in the pleadings are agreed to be true.

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