McDermott v. City of Seattle

NETERER, District Judge.

The plaintiff alleges that he is conducting a barber shop on private property in the city of Seattle in compliance with state laws, is duly licensed as a barber, and employs in his shop 15 or more licensed barbers; that he has $25,000 invested in his shop, and has for more than 25 years conducted his shop as “open hours,” providing barber service until 11 p. m. every week day, which service is sustained by persons engaged in water, rail, motor and motor bus transportation, and other persons so engaged as to make them wholly dependable upon late hours barber shops for…