Fetter v. City of Richmond

Respondent Fetter filed this suit in the Circuit Court of Ray County, Missouri, to enjoin the city of Richimond and its officers from enforcing a license ordinance which imposed a license fee of $5 per day, $50 per month and $100 per year on peddlers. Respondent in his petition asserted that the ordinance violated the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution; section 30 of article 2, and also section 3 of article 10 of the State Constitution. [1] The trial court granted the relief prayed for. The defendants appealed. A constitutional question being involved vests this court with…