Davis v. Petrinovich
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. William H. Tayloe. The mayor and general council of the city of Mobile, on March 16, 1896, adopted a general license ordinance, levying a license tax against all trades and occupations carried on in said city, and included therein a license tax on bicycles.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. William H. Tayloe. The mayor and general council of the city of Mobile, on March 16, 1896, adopted a general license ordinance, levying a license tax against all trades and occupations carried on in said city, and included therein a license tax on bicycles. The appellant in this case, Franklin P. Davis, a citizen and tax payer of the city of Mobile, filed the present bill against the appellee, Frank Petrinovich, tax collector of the city of Mobile, under the provisions of section 45 of the act granting a charter to the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
1. The fact of the pendency of another suit by one Rolston against the defendant in this case, in the same court with this suit, and in reference to the same subject matter, is not well taken. It was admitted on the trial of this case, that the case of Rolston was instituted in the Mobile chancery court, on the 24th of March, 1896 ; that it “was substantially the same in object and almost identical in language with that of Davis v. Petrinovich, Tax Collector, (this case), and that it was brought in behalf of all parties in interest by Hugh Rolston, but was amended on the hearing, so as to be…
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