Legal Opinion
Coombe v. United States ex rel. Selis
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 5, 1925No. 4184PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from an order overruling appellant’s demurrer to a petition for a writ of mandamus and directing the appellant, Wade H. Coombe, superintendent of licenses, to issue to Jacob R. Selis a license to conduct a junk and secondhand business at 1215 K street N. E., Washington, upon payment by Selis of the fees prescribed by law.
The facts as alleged in the petition stand admitted upon demurrer, and must be accepted as true, inasmuch as the appellees declined to make answer to the petition.
The petition discloses that in February, 1908, one Abraham…
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