Delay v. City of Chattanooga

Me. Justice. Prewitt

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by Harvey E. DeLay, a resident of the State of Georgia; Joe N. Hunter, a resident of Hamilton County, but a nonresident of the City of Chatta nooga; and E, E. Carter, a resident of tlie City of Chattanooga, in the Chancery Court of Hamilton County under the Declaratory Judgments Law, against the City and others.

The question presented is the validity of an ordinance of the City imposing a license fee of five dollars per an-num on passenger automobiles using the streets of the City. In the original and amended bill the…