City of Portsmouth v. D. Pender Grocery Co.

This case arises upon a warrant charging that D. Pender Grocery Company had violated the city license* *829tax ordinance in unlawfully operating a delivery truck in Portsmouth without obtaining a license therefor. It was submitted to the trial judge on an agreed statement of facts. The defendant was acquitted and the warrant dismissed.

The case involves the same legal question which has been this day determined in City of Portsmouth v. Miller, Rhoads & Schwartz, Inc., ante page 823, 121 S. E. 891, though the facts differ in the particulars hereinafter indicated. Omitting the ordinance under which…