Patton v. City of Bellingham

This action was brought to test the constitutionality and validity of a statute and an ordinance, respectively, restricting the hours of opening and closing barber shops. Upon the commencement of the action, an order temporarily restraining* enforcement of the ordinance was obtained. A subsequent trial before the court resulted in findings and conclusions, based upon which a decree was entered dissolving* the temporary restraining order and denying any relief under the complaint. This appeal followed.

The statute involved reads as follows:

“The governing body of any city of the first, second,…