Roseland v. City of Phoenix

MELVYN T. SHELLEY, Superior Court Judge.

The City of Phoenix, hereinafter called appellee, a municipal corporation, by Ordinance G-922, enacted with the emergency clause on 6 May 1969 and approved that same date, provided for a tax on tobacco and all forms of alcoholic and malt beverages.

The ordinance was attacked by the appellants, who were the plaintiffs in the Superior Court in Maricopa County, wherein the appellants asked that the ordinance be declared null and void and the Superior Court, upon a hearing for preliminary injunction, gave judgment in favor of the defendant, the city, and…