Sperry & Hutchinson Co. v. City of Tacoma
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Washington
In Equity. Suit by the Sperry & Hutchinson Company against the City of Tacoma and others. On application for injunction pendente lite to restrain enforcement of a city ordinance exacting exorbitant license fees for using trading stamps.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District. Judge.
The object of this suit is to obtain judicial protection of the right to carry on in the city of Tacoma the complainant's business as a merchant and supplier to other retail merchants of trading stamps, which right is menaced, as the bill of complaint avers, by the defendants, who threaten to exact payment of exorbitant license fees from each merchant using trading stamps, and by criminal prosecutions enforce an ordinance of the city which has been heretofore by this court decreed to be void, because it is an unwarranted deprivation of rights guaranteed by the…
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