HARRIS v. CITY OF RENO

No. 4862

401 P.2d 678 (1965)

G.W. HARRIS and S. Traverso and A.D. Riley, Appellants, v. CITY OF RENO, a municipal corporation, Hugo Quilici, Roy Bankofier, Edward Spoon, Claude Hunter, Clarence J. Thornton, Edward Chism and William Gravelle, as the duly elected, qualified and acting Councilmen of the City of Reno; Clifford Malone as ex officio City Treasurer; Albert Boyne as ex officio City Assessor; Eliot Cann as City Engineer; and Elliot Gill as City Clerk, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada

May 7, 1965


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest S. Brown, Peter I. Breen, George Lohse, Reno, for Appellants.

Woodburn, Forman, Wedge, Blakey, Folsom and Hug, Reno, for Respondents.


THOMPSON, Justice.

Harris, Traverso and Riley, property owners and resident citizens of Reno, Nevada, who were defeated below in a declaratory relief proceeding (NRS 30.040), brought to question the validity of Reno City Ordinance No. 1352, appeal to this court. We affirm.

The matter was presented to the lower court upon an agreed statement of facts which we need not quote in full. The questioned ordinance was enacted February 12, 1962. Briefly, it provides...

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