Reed v. Blakley

An original proceeding by one Reed, called petitioner, against the city council (the individual members being named) of the City and County of Denver, called respondents, seeking a writ to require them to act on his application for a license to sell liquors in Denver, in relation to which, as said, “respondents refused to act upon the * * * ground that they had no lawful power to do so.” We granted an alternative writ. Whether authority to issue liquor licenses in the City and County of Denver is vested in the city council, as petitioner claims, or in the manager of safety and excise of…