Legal Opinion
Sanford v. City of Clanton
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided June 30, 1943No. 5 Div. 178PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Judge.
The question is whether Section 74 of the privilege license ordinance of the City of Clanton, as applied to appellant, infringes the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution, article 1, § 8, cl. 3.
The challenged schedule is made applicable to all who engage in such business within the corporate limits of the municipality.
Purpose of the ordinance is the “raising (of) revenue for the use of said City of Clanton in paying its general expense and to maintain and exercise the police power of said City of Clanton, in the regulation of said Businesses, Professions, Vocations, or…
2Cases cited48 opinions
- Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Coe v. ErrolSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Western Live Stock v. Bureau of RevenueSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Henneford v. Silas Mason Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Jackson v. City of Glenwood SpringsSupreme Court of Colorado · 1950
- Sanford Service Co. v. City of AndalusiaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1951
- Graves v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1952
- Sanford v. City of ClantonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
- Dorsky v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1951
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