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PIERCE OIL CORP. v. CITY OF HOPE

No. 137.

248 U.S. 498 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 172

63 L.Ed. 381

PIERCE OIL CORPORATION v. CITY OF HOPE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 27, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.E. Hemingway, Mr. G.B. Rose, Mr. J.F. Loughborough and Mr. D.H. Cantrell for plaintiff in error.

No appearance for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a complaint brought by the plaintiff in error to enjoin the City of Hope from enforcing an ordinance that forbids the storing of petroleum, gasoline, &c., within three hundred feet of any dwelling, beyond certain small quantities specified. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained by the Supreme Court of the State. 127 Arkansas, 38. The plaintiff is engaged in the business of selling petroleum oil...

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