STATE EX REL. MAGNOLIA PARK, INC. v. LOUISIANA STATE RACING COMMISSION

No. 43203.

92 So.2d 699 (1956)

231 La. 720

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. MAGNOLIA PARK, Inc. v. LOUISIANA STATE RACING COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steeg, Shushan & Pradel, New Orleans, Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Geo. M. Ponder, First Asst. Atty. Gen., John E. Jackson, Jr., Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., Wm. P. Schuler, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent-appellant.

T. Haller Jackson, Jr., Shreveport, Paul C. Tate, Mamou, amicus curiae.

Simon & Wicker, New Orleans, for relator-appellee.


PONDER, Justice.

In this suit Magnolia Park, Incorporated, seeks mandamus to order the Louisiana State Racing Commission to nullify its action issuing a racing permit to Kenner Racing Association, and to order it to issue a license or permit to relator. After hearing, the lower court nullified the permit granted to Kenner Racing Association, considered the alternative application filed by Magnolia Park, Inc. on August 28, 1956, and held that this alternative application...

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