Griffin v. City of Los Angeles

In an action against the City of Los Angeles, based upon seven alleged causes of action, general and special demurrers were sustained as to four thereof, and after a trial without a jury upon the first, second and seventh causes of action, findings and judgment were rendered in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.

The city council of said city, pursuant to the commission of a homicide during the robbery of a bank, enacted an ordinance wherein they recited that “the presence in the City of Los Angeles of the persons, and each of them, who committed the crime hereinabove…