Mooney v. Akron city

WASHBURN, PJ.

The principal question presented in this case is whether a certain ordinance of the city of Akron is an unconstitutional deprivation of liberty.

When required in the regular course of judicial procedure, it is our duty to declare laws void if not within the legislative power, but we should never do so except in a clear case, and we are bound to indulge every reasonable presumption in favor of the validity of a legislative enactment. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger, and the safety of our institutions depends in no small degree…