State ex rel. Wheeling Downs Racing Ass'n v. Perry

Calhoun, Judge:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the relator, Wheeling Downs Racing Association, a corporation, seeks to have the Court require the respondents, West Virginia Racing Commission and its individual members, to remove a certain restriction imposed upon a license issued by the commission to the relator. The case calls for a consideration and application of language contained in Chapter 192, Article 23, Section 7 of the Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, which embodies a revision and reenactment of a preexisting statute appearing as Chapter 19, Article 23,…