City of East Point v. Weathers

Mobley, Justice.

The defendants’ general demurrer raised, among other issues, the issue of whether or not plaintiffs have standing in equity to raise the questions presented by their petition for injunctive relief. Upon a previous appearance of this litigation this court held that the plaintiff malt beverage dealers were not entitled to mandamus absolute because the business of manufacturing, distributing, selling, or otherwise dealing in malt beverages is a privilege under the laws of this State and mandamus will not lie to compel local authorities to enforce a privilege but rather will only…