State Ex Rel. Woodruff v. Centanne

This is an appeal by petitioner (appellant) from a judgment denying him a mandamus to the clerk of the city of Prichard, Mobile County, for the issuance of a city license to sell package beer to be drunk off his premises.

The answer of the clerk to the petition invoked an ordinance of the city, which provides for a license charge of $250 for “Beer Parlors, Beer Package Stores, or other places where beer or other malt beverages are sold or offered for sale”. But the ordinance also provides that “no license shall be issued to any establishment which is nearer than five hundred (500) feet by the…