Adkins & Co. v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, rendered February 23, 1899, on an appeal from a judgment of the Police Justice of said city.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
The question involved in this case is the validity of the license tax imposed by the city of Richmond upon the plaintiff in error as a merchandise broker, and for the non-payment whereof he was prosecuted and fined.
It was objected by the counsel for the city that this court was without jurisdiction of the case, upon the ground that the record does not specially show that the tax was impugned on constitutional grounds. We are not aware of any requirement that it must specially appear in the record by some appropriate plea or other proceeding that the constitutionality of an act of the…
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