Brennan v. City of Seattle

The plaintiffs, Brennan and Leach, owners of a large number of automatic cigarette vending machines in Seattle, sought injunctive relief in the superior court for King county, restraining the city and its officers from enforcing its ordinance which makes it unlawful to vend cigarettes by the use of such machines or to install such machines for that purpose. The plaintiffs’ complaint was demurred to by the city upon the ground of insufficient facts to entitle them to injunctive relief. The demurrer being by the court sustained, and the plaintiffs electing to stand upon their complaint and not…