Gamble v. City Council
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Tried before the Hon. W. H. Ti-iomas. The appellant in this case, J. E. Gamble, was tried and convicted before the recorder of the city of Montgomery fox a violation of the city ordinance for carrying on without a license, the business of furnishing trading-stamps to merchants to be distributed by them to their customers for use in purchasing other merchandise.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Tried before the Hon. W. H. Ti-iomas. The appellant in this case, J. E. Gamble, was tried and convicted before the recorder of the city of Montgomery fox a violation of the city ordinance for carrying on without a license, the business of furnishing trading-stamps to merchants to be distributed by them to their customers for use in purchasing other merchandise. An appeal was taken by the defendant to the city court of Montgomery, wherein upon proper proceedings had the defendant was again convicted, and, from such judgment of conviction, takes tlie present…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The sole question involved in this appeal is the validity of the ordinance under which this defendant was convicted in the court below.
Section 10 of the act of 1894, page 635, provides “That said city council shall have the power to license all business, trades, occupations and professions not prohibited by the constitution and laws of the state of Alabama.”
It is settled law in this state that the legislature can confer upon cities and towns the power to impose a license tax upon businesses and professions. — N. C. & St. L. Ry. v. Attalla, 118 Ala. 362; Elsberry v. State, 52 Ala. *6848; Ex parte…
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