Ex Parte Johns

KREUGER, Judge.

On the 23rd day of May, 1935, the city commissioners of the City of Harlingen passed and approved an ordinance which, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows:

“Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to distribute or cause to be distributed in the city of Harlingen, any handbill, or any printed or written advertising matter by placing or causing to be placed in any automobiles or in any mail box, or in any yard, or on any porch, or in any kind of door, or between any screen door and other door just beyond said screen door, or in any part of any…