Court Opinion

ID: 6542991
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 22:17:17.426774+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:55:53.098847
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Hemingway, J., dissenting. I am of the opinion that the judgment should be reversed. In the first place, I think the terms of the ordinance clearly disclose that it was designed to levy a tax for the purpose of revenue, and if so it was confessedly in excess of the city’s power. In the next place, I think that if it be treated as designed to regulate; and license, the sum exacted is so out of proportion to the cost of licensing and regulating as to be in law unreasonable and therefore to avoid the ordinance. Note. — The above case is annotated in 39 Am. & Eng. Corp. Cases, 73. (Rep.)