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GROVES v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. L.A. 22110.

40 Cal.2d 751 (1953)

256 P.2d 309

RALPH H. GROVES, Respondent, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 28, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney, John L. Flynn, Assistant City Attorney, and W.L. Weber, Deputy City Attorney, for Appellants.

Latham & Watkins and Keene Watkins as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

G. Revelle Harrison and Thomas B. Sawyer for Respondent.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Harold B. Haas, Deputy Attorney General as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

CARTER, J.

Defendants, the City of Los Angeles, and its chief of police and city clerk (who is its tax collector) appeal from a judgment declaring invalid its Ordinance No. 77,000 as amended by Ordinance No. 92,414, and enjoining the collection of the license tax thereunder. The court found that plaintiff is engaged in the business of soliciting, effecting and negotiating undertakings of bail in and out of Los Angeles as agent of National Automobile and Casualty Insurance...

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