O'Brien v. Trousdale
Nevada Supreme Court
Original proceeding in prohibition by Steve O’Brien and others against A. F. Trousdale and others, comprising the Board of County Commissioners of Humboldt County, and S. G. Lamb, Sheriff. The state constitution gives the supreme court jurisdiction to issue writs of prohibition to inferior tribunals. In regulating this power, the legislature has granted the court jurisdiction over inferior tribunals, and specifically names "ministerial” boards.
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Original proceeding in prohibition by Steve O’Brien and others against A. F. Trousdale and others, comprising the Board of County Commissioners of Humboldt County, and S. G. Lamb, Sheriff. The state constitution gives the supreme court jurisdiction to issue writs of prohibition to inferior tribunals. In regulating this power, the legislature has granted the court jurisdiction over inferior tribunals, and specifically names "ministerial” boards. (Rev. Laws, 5708,5709; Eddy v. Board of Embalmers, 40 Nev. 329.) Petitioners are not attempting to restrain the board of county commissioners from…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sanders, J.:
This is a petition addressed to this court by certain persons engaged in the saloon and restaurant business in the town of Lovelock, Humboldt County, Nevada, praying that this court will, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, issue, its writ of prohibition, restraining and prohibiting the county commissioners of Humboldt County, acting as a town board with reference to the *94affairs and business of the town of Lovelock, and S. G. Lamb, sheriff of said county, from enforcing an ordinance passed by said board requiring licenses for the selling, serving,…
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