Torpedo Co. v. Borough of Clarendon

This is a suit by the Torpedo Company, a corporation of the state of Delaware doing business in the state of Pennsylvania, against the incorporated borough of Clarendon, in Warren county, in the latter state, to restrain the enforcement against the plaintiff of an ordinance of the borough, enacted April 24, 1882, which declares it to be unlawful for any person to “store, house, convey, carry, or have in his or her possession,” within the borough limits, any nitro-glycerine, (except enough to “shoot” any oil well in the borough, on payment of a license fee of $10,) under a penalty of not less…