Allen v. City of Colorado Springs

I am not in accord with the court’s opinion, because it has the effect of invalidating an ordinance which has been in effect in Colorado Springs, a home rule city, for a quarter of a century, and places its stamp of approval *504on the sale of all lands of merchandise on Sunday by so-called drug stores.

Sunday closing legislation, as such, is clearly valid, unless otherwise discriminatory. 60 C. J. 1030. No extended discussion of the discrimination here involved is necessary. The controlling principles have been stated and reiterated many times by this court, and a sufficient statement of them is…