Coopersmith v. City and County of Denver

We will refer to plaintiffs in error as plaintiffs, or individually by name, and will refer to defendants in error, who are the City and County of Denver, various public officials, a commission and others named, as the City.

Plaintiffs in the trial court and by this writ of error, in a class action, have challenged the validity of submitted ordinance No. 137, Series 1962, which was an amendment to the Charter of the City and County of Denver which created a joint department of safety and excise. Stated in its broadest terms, plaintiffs object to the ordinance in question because it requires…