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— — ► Michigan High Court Orders Inglis to Allot Hazel Dates LANSING, Mich., May 4.— The Michigan State Supreme Court today ordered racing commissioner James H. Inglis to assign dates to Hazel Park for the 1953 racing season. The court ruled, in a unanimous opinion, that the track was entitled to a license to operate and delay in the final approval of dates would interfere with the progress of various pre-meeting details in connection with the operation of the track. Inglis earlier in the year assigned August 6-October 10 dates 57 days on a conditional basis, stating that holders of some 180,000 shares of stock in the association must dispose of their holdings. The association contended that it had no right to force any stockholder to sell his holdings if he didnt wish to do so. Inglis claimed that the holders of the stock in question were through relationship associated with persons classified by him as "undesirable." The Hazql Park Racing Association then filed a petition for a writ of mandamus with the Supreme Court asking that the Continued on Page Forty -Three Michigan High Court Orders Inglis to Allot Hazel Dates Continued from Page One court force Inglis to assign the dates. The petition thus was granted. The court repudiated all of Inglis reasons for the delay and his contention that legal action was premature. The court said that the track had operated for the past four years and Inglis didnt claim that the public was harmed in any way during the operation. It also pointed out that none of the stockholders in question Tiad any direction in the policy of the track and their connection with the track was too remote to cause any further delay in approval of the dates. The court ruled that the statute under which the racing commissioner operates didnt cover that phase, whereby the track could be requested to have stockholders sell their holdings if they were deemed "undesirable" by the commissioner.
