Cleveland Shopping News Co. v. Lorain

The questions involved under all four defenses are only two:

First, Can equity intervene, or has plaintiff an adequate remedy at law?

Second, Is the ordinance discriminating as against plaintiff and thus unconstitutional?

First. Does the petition and the evidence show such a property right in plaintiff that equitable jurisdiction will be invoked to protect it and that the legal remedy is wholly inadequate to protect it?

The petition shows that plaintiff is a corporation duly organized and engaged in printing, publishing and circulating what is known as an advertising newspaper; that it makes a…