Crescent Oil Co. v. City of Minneapolis

This is an action permanently to enjoin the defendant city of Minneapolis and its officers from enforcing an ordinance of the city requiring licenses of gasolene filling stations located on private property and imposing a fee for their issuance. The plaintiff applied for a temporary injunction. It was denied. It appeals from the order denying it.

There are two questions:(1) Whether there is charter authority for the ordinance.(2) Whether the ordinance is valid as a proper regulation in the exercise of the police power or in effect imposes a tax and is therefore invalid.

Section 5 of c. IV of…