27 Fla. 438 | Fla. | 1891
.The relator filed in this court on the 9th day of July, 1888, a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus against the Board of County Commisioners of Marion county, Florida, commanding them to consider the application of said relator filed before said Board for a permit to sell liquors, wines and beer in district number one (1) in Marion county,' Florida, and to grant to relator a permit authorizing him to obtain a license to sell liquors, wines and beer in said district from the date of said permit until the first day of October, 1888. Relator avers in his position for said
Further, that relator again, ata regular meeting of said Board, on the first Monday in July, 1888, presented his said application, find again requested that a permit be granted him to sell liquors, wines or beer in said district in said county from the first Monday in July 1888, until the first Monday in October, 1888, and that said Board again refused his application, alleging as an excuse that said Board had called an election to be held on the 20th day of September, 1887, to decide whether liquors, wines or beer should be sold in said county,.find at said election a majority of the registered voters of Marion county, then and there voting, had decided that liquors, wines or beer should not be sold in said county for two years, under the provisions of Chapter 3,700 of the Laws of Florida.' Relator alleges that all these excuses were false and mere pretenses to deprive him of his rights, and that no legal election for said purpose was ever legally held in said county.
An alternative writ of mandamus issued and vPas served upon the members of the Board of Cóunty Com
On the 23d day of July, 1888, relator moved to quash the return of respondents, and for peremptory writ, upon the ground that said return does not contain either a positive denial of the material facts stated in the petition of relator, or state other facts sufficient in law' to defeat the relator’s rights.
While relator had a right, to institute his proceedings in this court, yet the crowded condition of the docket, of which he was aware, should have admonished him that an earlier determination of his case was impracticable. The Circuit Court also had jurisdiction of this, cause, and he might have applied to that court for a decision if he had desired. Whatever may have been the lights of relator, had this court been able to reach the case in due course, it would now be uselesss to adjudicate them.
Motion overruled, and the cause is dismissed.