Shepard v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, W. T. Dovell, Esq., judge pro tempore, entered March 14, 1910, upon findings in favor of the defendant, after a-trial on the merits before the court without a jury, dismissing an action to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance.
1Opinion of the Court
Rudkin C. J.
This action was instituted by the plaintiffs, as owners and lessees of certain property in the city of Seattle, to restrain the city from enforcing, as against the plaintiffs and their property, the provisions of an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance regulating the location and maintenance of private hospitals and sanitariums, and providing for penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof, and declaring an emergency.”
Section one of the ordinance reads as follows:
“No private hospital or sanitarium shall be established or maintained within the city of Seattle in any building…
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