In Re Smith
California Supreme Court
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS to W. H. Kline, Constable, to test the validity of an ordinance of the County of Los Angeles. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
The petitioner is in custody for the alleged violation of a criminal ordinance of the county of Los Angeles, making it a misdemeanor to erect or maintain gasworks, gasholders, gas-tanks, etc., within a boundary fixed in the ordinance. Before the passage of the ordinance, petitioner and others had erected the gasworks within the district, and were supplying gas to consumers—inhabitants of the cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles. After his works were so in operation the ordinance in question was adopted. Its effect, if valid, is to suppress his business. In his petition he set up, with other…
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