Dr. Rose Wants License

Asks Circuit Court to Compel Council

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TO PASS UPON HIS BONDS
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Validity of Ordinance Limiting Territory for Saloons Is Involved

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Dr. Joseph L. Rose filed a petition in the circuit court Tuesday against the common council requiring the said council to pass upon his saloon bond filed before the first of May. The petition will bring before the circuit court the validity of the city ordinance fixing the limits within which saloons may lawfully be conducted.

John L. Bennett is counsel for the relator and the petition asks that the respondents be compelled to show cause why a peremptory mandamus shall not issue requiring the council to meet in special session at an early day and pass upon the bond of the said Rose.

The petition goes on to state the fact that the said Jos. L. Rose resides within the city of Ann Arbor and that he is the owner of a certain hotel property in a certain locality and that he has filed a bond with proper sureties to permit him to run a saloon in connection. It shows also that the consideration of the same was laid upon the table and action theron thus postponed.

The petition also recites the provisions of the ordinance excluding saloons from that section of the city and sets up that the ordinance is illegal and invalid.

The lateness of the receipt of the petition prevents the Argus from giving anything like a full statement of its points but it prays the court to issue a mandamus to compel the common council to pass at an early date on the bond which has been presented by Dr. Rose.