Sallsbury v. Equitable Purchasing Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

This suit brought by the appellee in the Boyd circuit court challenges the validity of an ordinance passed by the city council of the city of Ashland on February 1, 1915. The sections of the ordinance imposing the burdens complained of are numbers 1 and 2, they being as follows:

“Section I. That every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of lending or advancing money (or negotiation for the lending or advancing money) on assignments of salaries or wages, due or to become due or discounting salaries or wages due or to become due,…