S & C, Inc. v. City of Forest Park

Smith, Justice.

S & C, Inc., the appellant, applied to the City of Forest Park, the appellee, for a license to operate a package store on a lot that it owned within the city. When the city denied the application, S & C sought a writ of mandamus in the Clayton County Superior Court to compel the city to issue the license. S & C raises four enumerations of error in its appeal of the trial court’s denial of its application for a writ of mandamus. We reverse.

City Code of Forest Park, § 3A-5 states, “No business engaged in the sale of spirituous liquor or distilled spirits may be located within one…