Sperry & Hutchinson Co. v. City of Tacoma
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Equity. Suit by the Sperry & Hutchinson Company against the City-of Tacoma and others to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance imposing a license tax on corporations furnishing trading stamps to be used in connection with sales of goods where the stamps are redeemable by others than the sellers of the goods. On plea in bar. Sustained, and findings and decree ordered for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
This cause is now before the court for final decision.
The complaint was filed herein July 28, 1911, by the plaintiff, a corporation of the state of New Jersey, furnishing merchants with “trading stamps,” praying to have decreed unconstitutional and void Ordinance No. 2133 of the city of Tacoma, which ordinance requires any one using “trading stamps” in selling their goods, where the “trading stamps” are redeemable by others than the sellers of the goods, to pay an annual license of one hundred dollars. The complaint, in specifying the invalidity of the ordinance,…
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