Opinion

City of Seattle v. Cottin

  • 144 Wash. 572
  • 258 P. 520
  • 1927 Wash. LEXIS 823
Court
Washington Supreme Court
Filed
Aug 9, 1927
Status
Published
Author
Tolman
On the bench
Holcomb, Tolman
Cited by
1 cases

The opinion

Tolman, J.

(dissenting) — This is a prosecution under the city ordinance, not under the state law. While a city ordinance may not go beyond the state law and make unlawful that which the legislature has not made so, yet it may extend only to certain things and leave uncovered other things which the state law forbids. Therefore, the question here is, did the appellant violate the city ordinance?

The majority wisely refrains from saying that one permitted by state law to treat disease may be forbidden to do so by city

ordinance;

and, in my judgment, no such holding could be justified. I therefore dissent.

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