City of Beaumont v. Sam's Loan Office, Inc.

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the Fifty-Eighth district court of Jefferson county, holding unconstitutional an ordinance regularly passed by the city commission of the city of Beaumont, regulating auction sales within the city of Beaumont and prescribing a license fee of $5 per day for the privilege of holding auction sales and a penalty of $200 per day for violating the provisions of the ordinance. The judgment was upon appellee’s petition, which attacked the ordinance upon the following propositions:

First. The city of Beaumont had no power to pass an ordinance regulating…