Joseph v. Randolph
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried' before Hon. ThoMAS M. ARRINGTON. This was an action by Thomas Joseph, jr., against Erancis C. Randolph, to recover $250, which the plaintiff paid to the defendant, as judge of probate of Montgomery county, for a license under the - provisions of an act, entitled “ An act to amend an act to require a person who employs, or in any way engages laborers in the counties of Dallas, Perry and other counties therein named, for the…
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried' before Hon. ThoMAS M. ARRINGTON. This was an action by Thomas Joseph, jr., against Erancis C. Randolph, to recover $250, which the plaintiff paid to the defendant, as judge of probate of Montgomery county, for a license under the - provisions of an act, entitled “ An act to amend an act to require a person who employs, or in any way engages laborers in the counties of Dallas, Perry and other counties therein named, for the purpose of removing said laborers from the State, to pay a license tax, approved January 22, 1879..” This amendatory act…
1Opinion of the Court
SOMERVILLE, J".
The question presented for decision is a constitutional one, involving the validity of an ’ act of the General Assembly of this State, entitled “An Act to require a person who employs, or in any way engages laborers in the counties of Dallas, Perry,” and other counties therein named, “for the purpose of removing said laborers from the State, to pay a license tax;” which act, as originally approved on January 22, 1879, designated the amount of such license at one hundred dollars.—Acts 1878-9, p. 205. It was amended December 8, 1880, so as to increase this license to two hundred…
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