Levi v. State Ex Rel. Palm Court Hotel, Inc.

— At the time the defendant in error originally applied for a license to sell intoxicating liquors there was in force in the city of Miami Beach an ordinance, No. 391, providing that no license should be issued to a retail dealer, “except in hotels having fifty or more guest rooms,” in any block in which there was already a licensed dealer. The application was imperfect, because not verified and was denied. Later it was renewed but meanwhile the city council passed as an emergency measure, an amendatory ordinance No. 504, increasing the above number of rooms to one hundred and prohibiting any…