Meeks Motor Freight, Inc. v. Ballard

Opinion by Judge Fulton

Granting writ of prohibition.

The petitioner, Meeks Motor Freight, Incorporated, operates a truck line through the city of Mt. Vernon, a city of the sixth class, and is the holder of a permit from the State Tax Commission under the provisions of chapter 104, Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, Kentucky Statutes, Sections 2739j-42 et seq. One of its truck drivers was fined $5 by the respondent in the police court of Mt. Vernon for violation of an ordinance of that city requiring’ any person receiving’ or discharging freight into or from any mechanically-driven vehicle…