Lou-Val Co. v. Wynne

I. Mandamus Case.

GIBSON, District Judge.

Under the regulations of the Prohibition Bureau, it is plain that the burden of determining the propriety of an alcoholic constituent to be used in the manufacture of any proposed product is placed upon the Commissioner of Prohibition, while the duty of passing upon the fitness of an applicant for a permit to use alcohol in his business is imposed upon the Administrator. The question in the present case is whether the Administrator, having determined that an applicant was a fit person to hold a permit for the use of alcohol in a certain line of…