Hartig v. City of Seattle

The respondent made application for a license to sell liquor in the city of Seattle, in King county. The city comptroller refused to issue the license by reason of the provisions of the referendum amendment to the city charter. Upon the refusal of the city comptroller to issue the license, respondent applied to the superior court and procured an alternative writ of mandamus. The appellants made return thereto, admitting all the allegations of the respondent’s complaint, but pleading the existence and provisions of the referendum act of the city charter. Respondent demurred, not alone upon the…