Kicklighter v. City of Jesup

Grice, Justice.

The sustaining of a demurrer to a petition for mandamus is for review here. Jack Kicklighter, by a proceeding filed in the Superior Court of Wayne County against the City of Jesup, its mayor, council and clerk, sought to require those defendants to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors in that municipality and also to issue to him a license to sell such liquors at a designated place therein.

1. We first consider the petition insofar as it seeks to require regulation of the sale of liquors.

It alleges that pursuant to Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 103, a Wayne County election…