White v. Holman
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Melvin C. George and John B. Oleland concurring, Alfred F. Sears, Jr., dissenting, in joint session. This is a special proceeding by Harry V. White and William Smith to compel the defendants Herbert Holman, Edw. Wright, and S. M. Mears, who constitute the board of commissioners for licensing sailors’ boarding houses, to grant to the petitioners authority to keep such a house.
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From Multnomah: Melvin C. George and John B. Oleland concurring, Alfred F. Sears, Jr., dissenting, in joint session. This is a special proceeding by Harry V. White and William Smith to compel the defendants Herbert Holman, Edw. Wright, and S. M. Mears, who constitute the board of commissioners for licensing sailors’ boarding houses, to grant to the petitioners authority to keep such a house. The alternative writ of mandamus states that the petitioners, owning a house of this kind in Portland, Oregon, have applied to the defendants for a license to conduct the same, presenting the necessary…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Moore
Though the refusal to issue the license to the petitioners is founded, in the answer, upon their alleged unworthiness and incompetency, such denial appears from the testimony to have been based upon the board’s desire to limit the *182business to only one sailors’ boarding house at Portland, the managers of which had received a license prior to the petitioner’s application therefor; thereby attempting to create-a monopoly in that vocation. The defendant Edward Wright, as a witness in his own behalf, testified as' follows: “ When the board was organized, we made a rule that we would issue licenses…
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