Wright v. City of Hazard

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

By this proceeding the appellant sought a writ of prohibition against the police judge of the city of Hazard to prevent the latter from trying him under a warrant charging him with the operation of a taxicab in the city of Hazard without the license required for that purpose by an existing ordinance of that city. The lower court refused to grant the writ requested, and from its judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The case went off in the lower court solely on the sufficiency of the petition of the appellant. In it he avers that he lives in the…