City of St. Louis v. Woodruff

The defendant was convicted and fined $10 in the St. Louis police court for pursuing his avocation as driver of a street-sprinkling cart, without having a license, which was required by the city ordinance. He appealed to the court of criminal correction, and again there was judgment for the city, from which he appealed to the St. Louis court of .appeals, and from the judgment in that court, affirming that of the court of criminal correction, defendant has appealed to this court.' ;

*93An ordinance of the city, No. 9780, provides that: “ There shall be annually levied and collected a license tax…