John H. Swisher & Son, Inc. v. Johnson

WHITFIELD, J.:

The essential question to be adjudicated is whether the advertising signboards of a cigar manufacturer “made of fireproof material securely fastened between galvanized iron posts firmly imbedded in the ground in cement” displaying only the words “King Edward Cigars,” and located on the land of another for an agreed consideration, and erected and maintained within fifteen feet of a public highway, may be required to be removed under a statutory enactment that “no advertisment, advertising sign, or advertising structure shall be constructed, erected, used, operated or maintained .…