McLaughlin v. Helgerson

Plaintiff, the owner and operator of a hopyard in Polk County, Oregon, instituted this . suit to restrain the defendants, as district attorney and sheriff of said county, from enforcing by threatened prosecutions of plaintiff the penal provisions of Section 8158, Or. L., as amended by Chapter 118, Laws of 1925. He bases his right to maintain the suit upon the alleged ground that the statute- is unconstitutional and that its enforcement would injuriously affect, in respect to the matters alleged, the operation of plaintiff’s business. As amended, this statute reads as follows:

‘(Sec. 8158. The…