City of Shreveport v. Smith

This case was argued with the case bearing the same title, No. 19,071, 57 South 652,1 this day decided. In that ease, the same defendant, having been proceeded against by rule in a civil proceeding, to compel him to pay a license tax under an ordinance of the city of Shreveport imposing such tax upon “the business of selling nonintoxicating malt liquors, known as ‘near beer,’ ‘hiawatha,’ or any other name that may be used to designate it,” attacked the ordinance, as in conflict with so much of article 229 of the Constitution as provides that “no political corporation shall impose a greater…