St. Louis Poster Advertising Co. v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES . FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The cases are stated in the opinion. contended that this case differed, tolo ccelo, from the Gunning Case, 235 Missouri, 99, upon which great reliance was placed by the city.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES . FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The cases are stated in the opinion. contended that this case differed, tolo ccelo, from the Gunning Case, 235 Missouri, 99, upon which great reliance was placed by the city. In that case, though involving the same ordinances, the cornerstone of the decision was the finding that the billboards there under consideration were dangerous to public safety and injurious to public health and morals, and, because of that finding, the regulations were upheld…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
The first mentioned of these cases was brought by the plaintiff in error in a State Court of Missouri to prevent the City of St. Louis and its officials from enforcing an ordinance regulating the erection of billboards, on the ground that the ordinance is contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment in various respects. The suit was begun on March 21, 1914, and on May 22, 1917, a judgment of that Court dismissing it upon demurrer was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State. 195 S. W. Rep. 717. The other case was begun a little earlier, on January 30, 1914, in the District Court of the United…
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