Ex Parte Alabama Brokerage Co.

This petition is for the review of a judgment of the Court of Appeals in the case of Alabama Brokerage Co. v. Joe Boston, 93 South. 289, 1 wherein the act of March 9, 1901, known as the Money Lenders’ Act (Local Acts 1901, p. 2685), was upheld as constitutional; that conclusion being decisive of the case at bar, and being the only question presented on appeal.

This act, in its various constitutional aspects, was very carefully considered by District Judge Jones in Re Home Discount Co., 147 Fed. 538, 544, and was held to be within the legislative power and free from constitutional objections.…