EVANS v. WATT

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EVANS v. WATT
1934 OK 442
35 P.2d 971
169 Okla. 63
Case Number: 24021
Decided: 09/18/1934
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

EVANS
v.
WATT, Chief of Police.

Syllabus

ΒΆ0 Auctions and Auctioneers--Ordinance Regulating and Licensing Merchant Auctioneers and Requiring Year's Business Residence Held Valid Police Regulation.
The first syllabus in the case of Moore v. City of Oklahoma City et al., 161 Okla. 205, 17 P.2d 953, is adopted as the syllabus in this case.

Original action in Supreme Court by H. F. Evans against John Watt, Chief of Police of Oklahoma City, for writ of habeas corpus for illegal restraint. Writ denied.

Arthur Fitzpatrick, for plaintiff in error.
W. H. Brown and A. P. Van Meter, for defendant in error.

PER CURIAM.

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