State Ex Rel. White v. City of Cleveland

The relator in his demand for a lease of the public music hall of the Cleveland auditorium and in his application for a writ of mandamus to compel the execution of such lease proceeds upon the theory that it is the absolute right of any applicant who proposes to meet the general terms prescribed for the use of such hall to have a lease thereof for the period designated.

The question presented must be disposed of upon that theory. The relator, being a citizen of the state of New York, and neither a citizen nor a taxpayer of the city of Cleveland, cannot be heard to urge the cause of Cleveland…