Vest v. Kansas City

The plaintiff is a barber. He sues to enjoin the enforcement of an ordinance of Kansas City providing for the physical examination of barbers and for the inspection of barber shops on the ground the ordinance conflicts with similar provisions of the State statute which regulates barbering.

Barbering has long been regarded as an occupation properly subject to regulation for the protection of the public health. Ex parte Lucas, 160 Mo. 218, 61 S. W. 218. Such regulation has been exercised both by the State and by municipalities. Cities of the first, second, and third classes are expressly…