Norton

Complaint was filed in the Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles, charging in count I thereof that the defendants did wilfully and unlawfully erect and construct, and cause and permit to be erected and constructed, within a residence district, a billboard of an area of more than twelve (12) square feet, contrary to Ordinance 38315, section 16, of said city; and in count II thereof that the defendants erected and constructed, and caused and permitted to be erected and constructed, a billboard of a surface area of more than twelve (12) square feet, without first having secured a written permit from the board of public works of said city so to do, contrary to section 20 of said ordinance. Defendants were adjudged guilty on both counts and now appeal from the judgment and from the order of the trial court denying defendants’ motion for new trial, and from all orders made subsequent to the judgment.

The grounds of appeal are:

1. That the ordinance upon which complaint in this cause is based is unconstitutional, in that it seeks to deprive the defendants of the free use of their private property without due process of law, and in that said ordinance places an unreasonable…