Southeastern Express Co. v. City of Charlotte

The .plaintiff paid the tax levied by the city, in accordance with the statute, and sued to recover the money. C. S., 7979.

This suit is brought on the ground that defendant has levied and collected from plaintiff the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75), the maximum privilege or license tax provided for in “An Act to Baise Bevenue,” same being “The Public Laws of North Carolina for the Year 1921,” sections 79 and 79 a. That in addition to the privilege of license tax levied and collected as aforesaid, the defendant, under an ordinance known as the Bevenue Ordinance of the City of Charlotte, has…