DeCaro v. City of Collierville

This action was brought by the appellee, Joe DeCaro, by petition for the writ of statutory certiorari, "for trial de novo, under Chapter 105, Acts of 1961, as now codified in sec. 57-209, T.C.A. The question-presented by the action is stated by the Chancellor, as follows:.

‘ ‘ The Court is presented in this cause with a question of whether a municipality can deny a beer permit under the 1961 amendment to the beer statutes for the State of Tennessee, in the absence of a showing that the granting of such license would affect the health, morals and welfare of the community.”

Mr. DeCaro first filed…