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ST. LOUIS POSTER ADV. CO. v. ST. LOUIS

Nos. 220 and 2.

249 U.S. 269 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 274

63 L.Ed. 599

ST. LOUIS POSTER ADVERTISING COMPANY v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS ET AL. ST. LOUIS POSTER ADVERTISING COMPANY v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 24, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marion C. Early, for plaintiff in error and appellant.

Mr. Everett Paul Griffin, with whom Mr. Charles H. Daues was on the brief, for defendants in error and appellees.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

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...

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