State Ex Rel. Renner v. Noel

The respondent, Louis M. Renner, relator below, made application to appellant Walker Pierce, then Supervisor of Liquor Control (his successor in office, C. Roy Noel, has since been substituted as appellant) under Laws Mo. 1933-1934 (Ex. Sess., p. 77, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 4689), for a license as a dealer at retail in intoxicating liquor by the drink at Kansas City, Missouri. The appellant refused to issue the license on the ground that the respondent was not a law-abiding citizen and a man of good moral character. Thereupon respondent instituted a mandamus proceeding in the circuit court of Cole…