Leloup v. Port of Mobile
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
delivered the opinion of the court., This was an action brought in the Mobile Circuit Court, in the State of Alabama, by the Port of Mobile, a municipal corporation, against Edward Leloup, agent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, to recover a penalty imposed upon him for the violation of an ordinance of said corporation, adopted in pursuance of the powers given to it by the legislature of Alabama, and in force in August, 1883. The ordinance was as follows, to wit:’ “Be it ordained by the Mobile Police Board, that the license tax for the year, from the 15th .of' March, 1883, to the 15th…
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