Weyman v. City of Newport

*488Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

In 1894 the General Council of the city of Newport, a city of the second class, enacted a general license ordinance fixing the license fees that persons engaged in ■various trades, occupations and businesses should pay, and in one section of the ordinance provided “that each and every person, corporation or company engaged in the business of vending milk in the city of Newport shall pay an annual license fee or tax of the sum of ten dollars when carried on with a wagon, and ten dollars when carried on in a depot.”

The appellant, Weyman, a milk…