City of New Orleans v. Kaufman

The opinion of tho court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

The city of New Orleans sues for two hundred and fifty dollars as license tax for pursuing the occupation of junk dealer. *284The clause oí the ordinance upon •which tho right to demand this sum of tho defendant is based is: “ Every member of a company or firm, and every person not connected with a company or firm, keeping a junk store, or old iron, brass, copper, second-hand machinery, cordage, rags, loose cotton, and like articles, two hundred and fifty dollars.”

The defendant attacks tho constitutionality of the ordinance because of its…