State ex rel. Dyke v. Spradling

WASSERSTROM, Judge.

Relators filed application in the court below for a writ of mandamus in the nature of a class suit to compel the respondent Director of Revenue to issue automobile license plates for the year 1974 containing the same numbers accorded to each respective registrant in prior years. Relators had been assigned license number 1-248 in 1948, and plates containing those numbers had been issued to them for each year through 1973.

Sometime prior to 1973, the Director adopted a new plan for license plates on all non-commercial motor vehicles by which each plate would contain a…