Hawkins v. City of Red Cloud

This is a suit for an injunction to prevent the city of Red Cloud and its officers from enforcing an ordinance which by its terms would prevent plaintiff from installing and operating an “Automatic Coin-in-the-Slot Gasoline Pump” at a gasoline filling station without an attendant. The petition challenges the validity of the ordinance by pleas of prohibition rather than regulation; of uncertainty, discrimination and unreasonableness; of invasion of personal and property rights under the guise of police regulation; of violation of due process clauses of federal and state Constitutions. Details…