63 Miss. 89 | Miss. | 1885
delivered the opinion of the court.
The right of the appellees to invoke the aid of the court, and the power of the circuit court to correct the errors of the inferior tribunal by certiorari, rest upon the same facts substantially as those disclosed in the case of Corbett v. Duncan, ante, page 84, and Avhat Avas there said is applicable to this case. This is a petition by the firm of Loeb & Co. for a license to retail liquor in the town of Meridian, and the petition filed by them and signed by the voters of the town recommended “A. Loeb & Co. to be of good reputation and sober and suitable persons to retail vinous and spirituous liquors, etc.” It does not appear by the petition Avho composed the firm of Loeb & Co., and this we think xvas a fatal defect. A fii’m cannot be said to be a person of good reputation, nor can it be said that it is a sober person. The members of the
Licenses to prosecute a lawful and harmless vocation are required purely as a means to raise revenue, and are demandable as a matter of right by any one who will pay therefor, but licenses to retail intoxicating liquors may be secured only upon the recommendation of the person applying by a majority of the legal voters of the municipality, and a recommendation of the firm or of the members who compose it, without stating who they are, is not such a recommendation of the person as is contemplated by the statute.
The judgment is affirmed.