Davis & Farnum Mfg. Co. v. City of Los Angeles
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern California
Lynn Helm and Lee, Scott, Bailey & Chase, for complainant. W. B. Mathews, Le Comte Davis, and W. R. Bacon, for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
WELLBORN, District Judge.
Complainant at the commencement of this suit was erecting within the city of Los Angeles, for and under contract with another party, a water holder and gas tank, and filed its bill solely to enjoin threatened criminal prosecutions, under an *538ordinance of said city alleged to be invalid, against its employes for working on said structures, the purpose and effect of which prosecutions, the bill alleges, are to compel complainant to abandon said work, and thereby destroy or impair its vested property rights. The questions now presented for consideration relate to the…
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- Mayor of Baltimore v. RadeckeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1878
- City of Austin v. Austin City Cemetery Ass'nTexas Supreme Court · 1894
- City of Atlanta v. Gate City Gas Light Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1883
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