Trammell v. Yancey

1. A city ordinance prescribing that “No person, firm, or corporation shall be permitted to establish a pool or billiard room or tenpin alley, to be operated for hire, without first obtaining written permission of both the landlords and tenants nearest such place on either side, and no license will be granted until such permission is obtained,” is not void on the ground that it is an unreasonable restriction upon businesses of the character therein dealt with. Preund’s Police Power, § 645 et seq. and cases cited.

2. This was an application for mandamus to compel the municipal authorities to…