Sproul v. State

BROWN, J.:

The appellee here, W. P. Smith, filed a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in which he alleged that he was a vendor of intoxicating liquors in the County of Palm Beach and had been a- duly licensed vendor for the past three years and that in his place of business intoxicating liquors were sold and consumed on the premises. That according to the last federal census of 1940 the population of Palm Beach County was 79,895 and that pursuant to the controlling statute relator, on September 22, 1942, tendered and paid to the…