Robinson v. Wood

This action is brought for an injunction restraining the defendant, the chief of police of the city of Kingston, from interfering with the plaintiff’s conduct of his business in carrying on a proposed auction sale and enjoining the defendant in his official capacity from enforcing or attempting to enforce an ordinance forbidding an auction sale after sundown.

The plaintiff is a resident and taxpayer in the city of Kingston, and conducts a jewelry store on his premises at No. 37 North Front street in that city. He owns a jewelry stock worth between $6,000 and $7,000, which he is anxious to…