Young v. Town of Vienna

The appellant, Alice Marie R. Young, filed her petition for a declaratory-judgment in the court below praying that the business privilege license tax ordinance of the town of Vienna, Virginia (appellee), under which she was required to pay a tax for engaging in the business of renting commercial property, be declared inapplicable to her; that the ordinance be held void; and that the license tax exacted of her be returned. From a decree denying the prayers of the petition and holding the ordinance valid, we granted an appeal.

The appellant’s principal assignment of error is that she was not…