Sears v. Board of Commissioners

This case was heard and decided in the court below upon an agreed statement of facts; and that statement fully raises the question whether so much of an act entitled “an act concerning licenses to vend foreign merchandise, to exhibit any caravan, menagerie, circus, rope and wire dancing, puppet show, and legerdemain ” (Approved June 15th, 1852,) as affects a license to vend foreign merchandise is in conflict with the constitution of the United States, and of this State.

The substance of the agreed statement of facts is as follows*:

“ That Alvin High is the legally elected and qualified…