State ex rel. Miller v. City of Spencer

Litz, Judge:

The relator, H. B. Miller, seeks by mandamus to compel the city of Spencer, and the mayor and comnion council thereof, to grant him a license for the .operation of a pool room therein.

The petition and alternative writ aver that the relator on the 1st day of March, 1923, made application in writing to the mayor and common council of the city of Spencer, for a certificate of license to keep for public use and resort a pool room, containing five pool tables, in a certain room of the Spencer Planing Mill Building, situate at 115 Court Street in said city, at the time tendering to said…