State ex rel. Hennesmeyer v. Reid

This is a proceeding by mandamus, seeking to compel the county court of .Lincoln county to grant the appellant a license as a dramshop keeper. The circuit court denied the writ and relator appeals. The county court of Lincoln county found all of the facts essential to relator’s right to have the dramshop license and that he was entitled under the mandatory provisions of the statute with respect to dramshops, to have the license awarded upon his payment therefor, etc., unless the local option law is in force in that county, in which event the court would, of course, have no jurisdiction to…