Berrata v. Sales

— Plaintiff had judgment in an action instituted to prohibit the defendants from enforcing a certain ordinance numbered 284, charter series, entitled, “An ordinance establishing certain districts or zones and regulating the use of property and the location of various industries and business or commercial establishments in the City of Petaluma” and the defendants appeal.

The city of Petaluma is a municipal corporation, operating under a freeholders’ charter, effective in 1911 (Stats. 1911, p. 1799).

On November 19, 1923, the city council of the city of Petaluma adopted an ordinance creating a…