Conley v. City of Buffalo

In 1906 one of defendant’s policemen called on plaintiff at his dancing school and asked to see his license. Plaintiff stated that he did not have a license. The policeman told plaintiff to go to the mayor’s office and get one; that he, plaintiff, must have a license to run a dancing school. Plaintiff went to the mayor’s office, procured the license and paid twenty-five dollars for it. In 1907 these conversations were repeated, and a second license was procured by payment of a like sum.

*101It is now urged that the city ordinance requiring such a license is void, and that consequently such…