Court Opinion

ID: 9551332
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:51:29.937119+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:32.607417
License: Public Domain

Hill, J.
(dissenting) — I dissent. We are not concerned with any question of public health. We are not even concerned with the exercise of the police power to require the removal of cardboard boxes, wooden pallets and steel bands (none of which endanger the public health), but which may endanger the public safety if allowed to accumulate. The sole issue in this case is not whether they shall be removed, but who shall remove them. They are being re*85moved and disposed of; the city of Spokane is objecting because the defendant is doing the removing. No one’s health or safety or even well-being is endangered. The trial court thought the city was trying to stretch the police power further than it could constitutionally be stretched. So do I.