Elmwood Tap, Inc. v. Daneker

This petition for certiorari was brought by the applicant for a class C license to sell intoxicating beverages at 438 Friendship street in the city of Providence. The respondent is the acting liquor control administrator for the state of Rhode Island. Hereinafter he will be called the administrator. Petitioner seeks to have quashed as illegal the record and action of the administrator in refusing to entertain its application for the above-mentioned license on the ground that he had no jurisdiction in the matter because “the owners of the greater part of the land within 200 feet of such…