Goytino

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel the respondents, the hoard of police commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, to issue a permit authorizing the city clerk to issue to petitioner a license, upon the payment of the legal fee therefor, to carry on and conduct a poolroom and pool-tables-at a certain street number in said city.

It appears from the conceded facts set out in the petition and return that an ordinance is in force in said city making it unlawful to carry on certain kinds of business in said-city without first procuring a license so to do, and among the kinds of business so specified is that of conducting poolrooms and operating pool-tables. It is further ordained that no license to carry on certain kinds of business, among which is that of conducting a poolroom or operating a pool-table, shall issue, except a permit therefor be first had from the board of police commissioners; and that said board can only issue such permits upon petition of the party intending to operate the same, accompanied by consent of a majority of the property owners within the block where the permit is sought. It is further provided by section 3 of said ordinance, that said board is…