State Ex Rel. Nixon v. McCanless

This is a mandamus suit instituted by the State of Tennessee, on relation of Mrs. Clandie Nixon and Mrs. Mary F. Finn, referred to herein as relators, against George F. McCanless, Commissioner of Finance and Taxation of the State of Tennessee, hereinafter called the Commissioner, to compel the latter to issue to them a retail liquor dealer’s license to engage in such business on Broad Street in the city of Nashville. The trial court held that the alternative writ of mandamus should be discharged and the peremptory writ sought denied. The relators are asking relief upon the ground that the…