Baldwin v. City of Blytheville

This appeal questions the constitutionality and validity of Ordinance No. 472 of the City of Blythe-ville, a city of the first class, entitled, “An Ordinance Regulating, Supervising and Controlling the Operation of Motor Vehicles Used in the Transportation of Persons for Compensation Over the Streets of Blytheville, Arkansas.” The recited purpose of the ordinance was to regulate the taxicab business in that city, and was apparently enacted under the authority of Act 213 of the 1939 session of the General Assembly. Certain sections of that act were held to be unconstitutional in the case of…