Jacques, Inc. v. State Board of Equalization

This is an appeal from two judgments

of the superior court denying the appellants’ petitions for peremptory writs of mandate praying that respondent State Board of Equalization be commanded to annul its decisions revoking the liquor licenses of appellants and to restore said liquor licenses to appellants.

Everett E. Howard and Carl R. Howard, brothers, were on January 29, 1954, the sole owners of all the shares of stock of a California corporation, Jacques, Incorporated, which in turn held an on-sale general alcoholic beverage license for the premises known as the Showboat. Everett E. Howard…