Cooper v. Michael

Plaintiff sued on a written contract alleging that defendant employed him as an auctioneer to sell farm machinery, then repudiated the contract and hired another. The trial court sustained a special demurrer to the complaint. The sole basis of the court’s order was that plaintiff did not have an auctioneer’s license under a Glenn County ordinance requiring one. The questions on appeal from the judgment following plaintiff’s refusal to amend arise from plaintiff’s contention that he did not have to comply with the ordinance because (1) it is solely a revenue measure adopted contrary to…