Samuels v. Couzens
Decision Date | 27 April 1923 |
Docket Number | No. 90.,90. |
Citation | 193 N.W. 212,222 Mich. 604 |
Parties | SAMUELS et al. v. COUZENS, Mayor, et al. |
Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
OPINION TEXT STARTS HERE
Appeal from Circuit Court, Wayne County, in Chancery; Harry J. Dingeman, Judge.
Action by Joseph Samuels and another against James Couzens, Mayor of the City of Detroit, and other. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal. Affirmed.
Argued before WIEST, C. J., and FELLOWS, McDONALD, CLARK, BIRD, SHARPE, MOORE and STEERE, JJ.Walter Barlow, of Detroit (Clarence E. Wilcox, of Detroit, of counsel), for appellants.
Allan P. Cox, of Detroit, for appellees.
In July, 1919, the common council of the city of Detroit adopted the following ordinance:
‘An ordinance to regulate and license the business of selling jewelry, other than secondhand jewelry, in the city of Detroit.
Plaintiffs, as copartners, are now and for some time have been engaged in the retail jewelry business on Woodward avenue in the city of Detroit. They are not engaged in selling secondhand jewelry. They have no license, and have been complained against, in the recorder's court for the city of Detroit, for conducting their business without a license. They filed the bill herein to restrain...
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