Schloss Poster Advertising Co. v. City of Rock Hill

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

Appellant seeks reversal of a decree of the lower Court declaring valid an ordinance of the City of- Rock Plill and refusing to issue a writ of mandamus requiring the respondents to issue to him a permit to- erect certain billboards upon lots leased by him within the city limits. The pertinent portion of the ordinance under consideration reads as follows: “Hereafter it shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any billboard facing on any public street or other public place within the incorporate limits of the City of Rock Hill…