Maupin v. City of Louisville

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant and plaintiff below, Samuel Maupin, has, for the past five or six years, valiantly fought in the courts to sustain his alleged right to operate a private commercial business conducted exclusively in and upon the public streets and alleys in the city of Louisville. The private commercial business in which plaintiff is engaged — and the right to pursue which his counsel so vigorously, advocates and defends in this case— is that of driving along and over the public ways of the city of Louisville a motor vehicle equipped so as to become…