Eichelberger v. Robinson

Appellee, a retail jeweler, filed a bill for injunction in the City Court of Granite City, and obtained a decree against appellants, the mayor, police commissioners and chief of police, restraining them from enforcing ordinance number 593 of said city.

The sections of said ordinance as set forth in said bill, necessary to be here considered, are as follows:

“Sec. 457. For an auctioneer’s license, for a year, twenty dollars; for six months, fifteen dollars; for one month and any less time, five dollars. This section shall not be deemed to apply to any freeholder of the city selling his own…