Murphy v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the. constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of a police law of California regulating- billiard halls, are stated in the opinion. The' police power may be exercised to protect the public health, morals, safety and the general welfare, but it is at all times subject to the constitutional limitations that it may hot arbitrarily take away the lawful rights of a citizen.
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the. constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of a police law of California regulating- billiard halls, are stated in the opinion. The' police power may be exercised to protect the public health, morals, safety and the general welfare, but it is at all times subject to the constitutional limitations that it may hot arbitrarily take away the lawful rights of a citizen. Lawton v. Steele, 152 U. S. 133, 137; Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co., 184 U. S. 540, 558; Dobbins v. Los Angeles, 195 U.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamab
In 1908 the city of South Pasadena, California, in pursuance of police power conferred by general law, passed an ordinance which prohibited any person from keeping or maintaining any hall or room in which billiard or pool tables were kept for hire or public use, provided it should not be construed to prevent the proprietor of a hotel using a general register for guests, and having twenty-five bedrooms and upwards, from 'maintaining billiard tables for the use of regular guests only of such hotel, in a room provided for that purpose.
The plaintiff in error was arrested on the charge of…
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- Ex Parte MurphyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1908
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