Simpson v. City of Whatcom
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for What-com county, Joiner, J., entered February 24, 1903, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, dismissing an action for damages for plaintiff’s arrest and prosecution under a void city ordinance.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
Respondent passed a municipal ordinance prohibiting the riding of bicycles of a certain size upon its streets unless a license therefor were procured and a tax of one dollar a year paid for such license. The ordinance pro*394vided that seventy-five per cent of the revenue derived from such license should be expended on certain local improvements within respondent’s municipal limits, and that the remaining twenty-five per cent was to be, and it was, mingled with, and made a part of, the general funds of the city for use in its local interests, benefits, and advantages.
On the 15th day of August,…
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