Giesler v. City of Omaha

This is an action for a declaratory judgment seeking to have declared unconstitutional an ordinance of the city of Omaha purporting to regulate the doing of business on Sunday. The plaintiffs were the owners of eight separate drug stores in the city of Omaha. Two parties intervened in the action, one the owner of a gasoline filling station and the other the owner of a drug store. The city of Omaha was the sole defendant in the original action and in the petitions in intervention.

The petition and the petitions in intervention asserted that the Sunday closing ordinance, ordinance No. 21945 of…