State Ex Rel. Altop v. City of Billings

The complaint in this action, after setting out in paragraph 1 existence of the defendant city and that the individual defendants are officers thereof, alleges that the plaintiff is, and for many years last past has been, conducting a rooming-house in the city of Billings called the “Owl Rooming House” under a license issued by the city; that on November 5,' 1924, the city council of the city of Billings enacted Ordinance No. 995, which made it unlawful for any person to conduct a hotel or rooming-house in said city without having first obtained a license therefor, on application approved by…