Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hardin :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Adams Express Co. v. The City of Louisville.
    Municipal Corporation — License—Suit for Restitution — Petition—Sufficiency of.
    In a suit for the restitution of license wrongfully collected, the petition is bad when it fails to allege that the general council enacted no other ordinance on the same subject, and that it failed to adopt and ratify the' action of the inspector.
    APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
    September 23, 1871.
   Opinion by

Judge Hardin :

Although the petition alleges that the license inspector exacted and received the sum of $500 for license under the ordinance set out in-the petition, it neither alleges that the general counsel enacted no other.: ordinance on the same subject, nor that it did not adopt and ratify the action of -the inspector in putting the Adams Express Company in the first class of such corporations of which a license for $500 was exacted, and we can not, therefore, presume that the action of the inspectors in granting the license and exacting the fee therefor, of $500, was not substantially and really the action of the general council, done under the law authorizing it to provide for licensing express companies.

Sachs, for appellant.

Fox, for appellee.

Wherefore, waiving the consideration of the constitutional questions presented in the argument, we are of t'he opinion that the statement of facts made in the petition does not constitute a cause of action for restitution of the license fee, and the demurrer to the petition was properly sustained.

Whérefore the judgment is affirmed.