P. F. Petersen Baking Co. v. City of Fremont

This is an action to recover from the city of Fremont, defendant, $600 exacted by it in the form of license taxes on the occupation and business of itinerant vendors of bread at wholesale. That amount was demanded by defendant and paid under the terms of a city ordinance imposing a yearly license tax of $300 “on each itinerant vendor” of bread and of other enumerated commodities at wholesale. P. F. Petersen Baking Company, plaintiff, paid the annual tax of $300 August 13, 1927, and demanded repayment August 16, 1927. The Standard Bakeries Corporation paid the annual tax of $300 August 27,…