Hardin v. Bobbitt

Woods, Judge:

A writ of prohibition is sought by Silas Hardin, owner and operator of a line of taxicabs in the City of Charleston, prohibiting O. B. Bobbitt, municipal judge of said City, from proceeding to prosecute or penalize petitioner and his nine operators for their non-compliance with an alleged city ordinance fixing taxi fares, requiring the installation and use of taxi-meters, etc.

While the petition upon which the rule issued contains a general allegation to the effect that the alleged ordinance was improperly passed, and that the same was unconstitutional, it does not attempt to…