Hair v. City of Humboldt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

The action was to enjoin the enforcement of an ordinance of a city. The plaintiff alleged that it deprived him of the equal protection of the law in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, and was an abuse of the power to tax in contravention of article 12, section 5 of the constitution of Kansas. Judgment was for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.

*68Plaintiff, an honorably discharged veteran of the world war, owns and operates a bakery in Iola. He worked up quite a trade with various merchants in Humboldt.…