Cronin v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. The facts are stated in the opinion. This ordinance is unreasonable, arbitrary, partial and oppressive; the power, however, to adopt it was expressly conferred by the general assembly upon he city council of the city of Denver by clause 5 of sub. 12, sec. 20, of the charter.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. The facts are stated in the opinion. This ordinance is unreasonable, arbitrary, partial and oppressive; the power, however, to adopt it was expressly conferred by the general assembly upon he city council of the city of Denver by clause 5 of sub. 12, sec. 20, of the charter. But this charter provision is void — and hence the ordinance .adopted in pursuance of its grant — because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and also violates the constitution of Colorado, art. II, §§ 3, 25; chap. 27 Laws of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
This suit was brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error, who were officers of the city of-Denver, to restrain them from enforcing an ordinance of the city on- the ground that tlie ordinance was “contrary .to the provision-of the constitution of the State of Colorado and amendments thereto, and contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States,” and “contrary to the laws of the State of Colorado, guaranteeing civil rights to all persons, and contrary to other statutes of the State of Colorado.”
A preliminary injunction was allowed. It was made perpetual…
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