Anderson v. Smith

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by a citizen of the United States, a resident of San Francisco, to enjoin Walstein G. Smith, as Treasurer of the Territory of Alaska, from collecting, or attempting to collect, from the plaintiff a license tax fixed by an Act of the Territorial Legislature approved *735April 20, 1933 (Laws 1933, c. 30). By this act license fees for each resident fisherman of all classes were fixed at $1 per annum, while for each nonresident fisherman who uses a hook and line in trolling, at $25; for each nonresident fisherman who uses gill nets, $25; for each…