Castle, 19 Greenough Place, Inc. v. Mayor of Newport

This petition for certiorari is directed to the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Newport, acting in their capacity as a board of license commissioners, and seeks to have quashed as illegal the record and action of that board in refusing to grant the petitioner’s application for a retailer’s class B liquor license. In response to the writ the respondents, hereinafter called the board, appeared before us and produced the record of the proceedings in question.

From that record it appears that the respondents were acting as a board of license commissioners in accordance with general laws…