A. Loeb & Co. v. Duncan

Citations

• 63 Miss. 89

Syllabus

<p>1. Retailing Liquor. Petition for license. Peeommendation of firm.</p> <p>Under $1103 of the Code of 1880, which requires all petitions for license to retail liquors to set out that the “ applicant is of good reputation and a sober and suitable person to receive such license,” a petition which states that a certain firm, as A, B & Co., without giving the individual names of the firm, “are of good reputation and sober and suitable persons to receive such license,” is not good, because of the failure to set out the individual names of the firm.</p> <p>2. Same. Certiorari to municipal authorities. Where awarded.</p> <p>Where municipal authorities grant a license to retail vinous and spirituous liquors on a petition on its face insufficient, a writ of certiorari may be awarded by the circuit court in order to review the proceedings of such municipal authorities, on the application of any person who has duly filed a counter petition. Corbett v. Duncan, ante, page 84, cited.</p>