Davis v. Ogden City

The prevailing opinion has jumped into two conclusions from a premise that will support only one.

Let us quote the provision in Volume 1, Compiled Laws of Utah, 1888, pertaining to the professions, that was repealed and not included in the Revised Statutes of 1898.

*333It reads:

“To license, tax and regulate lawyers, surgeons, physicians, dentists, and other like professions * * ' *.”

At the time that the quoted section appeared in the laws of 1888, the following section also appeared:

“To raise revenues by levying and collecting a license fee or tax on any private * * * business within the limits of…