Legal Opinion
Flanagan v. Town of Petersburg
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided November 5, 1929No. 6496PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Litz, Judge :•
Upon the petition of H. L. Flanagan, the circuit court •awarded a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding Dr. Glen Moomau, mayor, L. L. Cooperider, recorder, and W. D. Trent, Eston Harmon, Fred Harmon, Wade Pexrode and Wilson Deadrick, council, of the town of Petersburg, Grant uounty, to issue to the petitioner a pool room license.
The answer and return of the respondents to the petition and alternative writ of mandamus, denied that Flanagan was a fit person to operate a pool room, and averred an established policy of the town, in the interest of public morals, to refuse *112all…
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