MURPHY v. CALIFORNIA

No. 204.

225 U.S. 623 (1912)

MURPHY v. PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred S. Austrian, with whom Mr. Levy Mayer was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. John E. Carson, with whom Mr. Lynn Helm was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1908 the city of South Pasadena, California, in pursuance of police power conferred by general law, passed an ordinance which prohibited any person from keeping or maintaining any hall or room in which billiard or pool tables were kept for hire or public use, provided it should not be construed to prevent the proprietor of a hotel using a general register for guests...

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