Stephens v. City of Great Falls

Action by A. C. Stephens, plaintiff, against the defendants City of Great Falls, Montana, and the mayor, clerk and members of the city council thereof seeking a declaratory judgment declaring the suspension of two certain city ordinances purporting to repeal the provisions of two earlier ordinances limiting the number of retail beer licenses and of retail liquor licenses to be issued in said city. From a judgment dismissing the complaint after sustaining defendants’ general demurrers thereto the’ plaintiff appeals.

The complaint shows the following facts:

Section 5 of Ordinance No. 845 of the…