City of New Orleans v. Mannessiers

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

Defendant appeals from the judgment of the lower court condemning him to pay a license tax of five dollars, for the year 1877, on his business as a peddler of ice-cream on the streets of the city.

*1076Defendant resists the payment of the license on the ground that the sale of articles of one’s own manufacture does not subject the seller to the payment of a license-tax to the city, and that the ordinance is illegal in that respect. As the case originated in the year 1877, it must be decided under the constitution and laws then in force, and we must,…