State Ex Rel. Smith v. Town of Ravenswood

HATCHER, PRESIDENT:

W. L. Smith filed a petition in this Court stating that he was a resident of the Town of Ravenswood; that he was. a man of good moral character; that he was the owner of a certain building in the town in which he desired .to conduct a pool room; that several years, ago he had operated a pool room in the same building which he had managed in strict compliance with the laws of the State of West Virginia and the ordinances of the town; that no complaint was ever made by the town or by any of its officers of the manner in which his pool room was conducted; that he had made…