Crum v. Town of Prattville
Supreme Court of Alabama
'Violation of Municipal Ordinance. Appeal from Autauga Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer. L. V. Crum was convicted of retailing goods, wares and merchandise without having taken out a municipal license therefor, and he appeals.
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'Violation of Municipal Ordinance. Appeal from Autauga Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer. L. V. Crum was convicted of retailing goods, wares and merchandise without having taken out a municipal license therefor, and he appeals. The powers of a municipal corporation are those granted in express words; those necessarily or fairly to be implied or incident to the powers granted, and those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation.— Greensboro v. Bhrenreich, 80 Ala. 579; New Decatur v. Berry, 90 Ala. 432; Smith v. Newborn, 16 Am. Rep. 766. On these authorities…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The defendant, L. Y. Crum, was arrested on affidavit and warrant, and was tried by the intenda.nt of the town of Prattville, and fined $20, on the charge of carrying on business in said town, without a license, as required under subdivision 2, § 134, of the Code of said town. He appealed to the circuit court, where he was charged on complaint, with “retailing-goods, wares, or merchandise, within the corporate lim*156its of said town, without haying- obtained a license therefor, as provided by the ordinance of said town.”
Several questions are presented, on assignments, of error, which we deem it.…
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