Austin v. City of Seattle

— -Appellants were each separately charged by a complaint filed with a justice of the peace with the violation of certain ordinances of the city of Seattle imposing an occupational tax. They were found not guilty, and the city appealed to the superior court. Thereupon, the appellants, as plaintiffs, joined in a civil action against the city, seeking to enjoin it from enforcing the ordinances upon which its criminal prosecutions were based.

The city demurred to the complaint in the civil action, and all of these matters were brought on for hearing at the same time in the superior court.

In the…