Smart v. City of Albany

This is an action brought against the city of Albany and various officers thereof to have declared void two ordinances of *61the city for the licensing of coal dealers, and to perpetually and during the pendency of this action restrain the enforcement thereof. The claim is made that the ordinances deprive plaintiff, a coal dealer, of property without due process of law; that they are discriminatory; that they abridge the privileges and immunities of the plaintiff as a citizen of the United States; and that they, in effect, prohibit plaintiff and others from engaging in a lawful business.

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