State v. City of Sheridan
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to District Court, Sheridan County; Hon. C. H. ParmelEE, Judge. Mandamus in the name of the State of Wyoming on the relation of 'C. W. Sampson against the City of Sheridan, a municipal corporation, and its officers, mayor and commissioners to compel the issuance to relator of a cement contractor’s license. From a judgment dismissing the petition and an order overruling motion for a new trial, relator brings error. The court erred in holding the ordinance void.
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Error to District Court, Sheridan County; Hon. C. H. ParmelEE, Judge. Mandamus in the name of the State of Wyoming on the relation of 'C. W. Sampson against the City of Sheridan, a municipal corporation, and its officers, mayor and commissioners to compel the issuance to relator of a cement contractor’s license. From a judgment dismissing the petition and an order overruling motion for a new trial, relator brings error. The court erred in holding the ordinance void. Section 1681, Comp. Stats. 1910, authorizes the City of Sheridan to require a license from those engaged in the business of…
1Opinion of the Court
Blydenburgh, Justice.
This was a suit in mandamus-brought in the District Court of Sheridan County in the name of the State on the relation of one C. W. Sampson to compel the City of Sheridan and its officers, mayor and commissioners, to issue to the relator a cement contractor’s license.
The City of Sheridan is a city of the first class that has adopted a commission form of government and acting, as is claimed, under the authority conferred by Section 1681, Wyo. Comp. Stat. 1910, had passed and adopted the following ordinance:
*353“Sec. 440. That no person, or persons, firm or corporation shall…
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