Shipley Baking Co. v. City of Hartshorne

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. The plaintiff, Shipley Baking Company, began this action in Pittsburg county against the defendant city of Hartshorne, on the 14th day of June, 1930, for an injunction to enjoin said defendant from enforcing ordinance No. 249 of said city of Hartshorne, which was an ordinance imposing an occupational license tax for the purpose of raising revenue.

The pertinent parts of said ordinance No. 249, passed under authority of section 4556, C. O. S. 1921, are as follows:

“Section 1. Por the purpose of raising a revenue for said city,…