City of Carlsbad v. Caviness

COMPTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant injunctive relief. Appellee Caviness, defendant below, operated a retail liquor establishment within the City of Carlsbad under authority of a valid dispenser’s license issued by the Division of Liquor Control of the New Mexico Bureau of Revenue. He applied to the Division for a transfer of location of the license to a point located four-tenths of a mile northwest of the city limits of Carlsbad and, over protest entered by the city, was granted the transfer by the Chief of Division. Thereupon the city sought an injunction to…