Mett v. City of Schenectady

This is an action to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance of the city of Schenectady regulating the sale of solid fuel and requiring the coal dealers of the city to procure licenses and to pay a license fee;

The plaintiffs, coal dealers, contend that the ordinance is void, primarily because coal is not a commodity the sale of which may be regulated by city authority; that the license fee imposed is excessive, discriminatory and unfair; that the provisions in the ordinance for *209compulsory insurance are beyond municipal authority; that the licensing board, under the provisions of the…