Levy v. Valentine

This action was brought by the plaintiff, a licensed hotel runner, to restrain the defendant police commissioner from enforcing two written regulations which he has promulgated, and some oral instructions which he has given, to members of the police force on duty in the area about the exit of the Holland Tunnel, with respect to hotel runners.

The plaintiff has been a hotel runner, duly licensed by successive police commissioners, for approximately twenty years. He has been carrying on this business, in recent years, in that part of Manhattan bounded by Laight, Canal and Varick streets. His…