Ex parte Hutchinson

HANFORD, District Judge.

Ordinance No. 6036 of the city of Seattle requires a person carrying on business as a pawnbroker to pay $100 per annum for a license, and exacts payment of six times as much for a license to sell trading stamps to merchants, in addition to a license fee of $100 per annum, which each merchant using trading stamps in his business is required to pay. It is very apparent that the purpose of this ordinance with respect to trading stamps is to prohibit their use in retail trade aá a means of drawing custom, rather than to provide revenue, or to exercise in a reasonable…