Court Opinion

ID: 9549298
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:15:49.178601+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:05.909759
License: Public Domain

BISTLINE, Justice,
concurring.
I have joined the Court’s opinion because I believe that the license requirement is undoubtedly within the municipality’s police power. Human experience teaches that there is apt to be more trouble in drinking establishments which permit dancing than in those which do not. Such being so, it *44stands to reason that a city might very well want some funds with which to employ a policeman to show himself at dance halls from time to time. The record does not show that this has taken place, although it may have. However, as the Court correctly notes, this is not the requirement. It is sufficient that a conceivable and legitimate purpose of the license requirement is to provide a fund with which to cover the likely increase in the cost of policing establishments which allow dancing.