State Ex Rel. Lockett v. Board of Commissioners

Lively, Judge:

By this mandamus proceeding, the petitioners, John and C. A.-Lockett, seek to compel the Board of Commissioners of the City of Huntington, to issue them a- license to conduct' a pool room and billiard hall at No. 830 Seventh Avenue, Huntington. This business will be operated in conjunction with petitioners’ restaurant in the same building, they having recently purchased this property and spent $1,200.00 in re-modelling it for these and other purposes. ' The petitioners formerly conducted a rooming house and restaurant at 808- 808Y2 Third Avenue in the same city.

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