Pacific Railways Advertising Co. v. City of Oakland

GOODELL, J., pro tem.

This appeal was taken from a judgment and decree permanently enjoining the City of Oakland, the members of its council, its chief of police and its city attorney from enforcing an ordinance prohibiting commercial advertising on the exterior sides of street-cars. The decree declared the ordinance to be unconstitutional and void.

The following facts are alleged in the complaint and not denied: The plaintiff Key System Transit Company, a Cali fomia corporation, operating a street railway system under franchises from the City of Oakland and the county of Alameda, made a…