State ex rel. Zien v. City of Duluth
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Upon the relation of Isidor Zien, tbe district court for St. Louis county granted its alternative writ of mmda/mm, directing defendant city and the members of its council to grant the application of relator for a license to sell intoxicating liquor at a specified place. From an order, Dancer, J., sustaining defendants’ demurrer to relator’s petition and granting their motion to quash the writ, relator appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
The city of Duluth is a city of the first class, and is governed by a homo rule charter, adopted in 1913, which among other things confers upon the electors of the city the powers commonly designated as the initiative and referendum. Acting under these provisions of the charter the electors of the city, in June, 1916, adopted an ordinance prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor within the city and forbidding the issuance of licenses for the sale of Such liquor. Thereafter the relator, asserting that this ordinance was invalid and of no effect, applied to the city council for a…
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