Browning v. City of Waycross

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the violation of an ordinance of the City of Way cross, and excepts to the overruling of his certiorari. The ordinance imposed an occupation tax of $25 “upon lightning-rod agents or dealers engaged in the business of putting up or erecting lightning-rods.” The plaintiff in error was employed as agent of the St. Louis Lightning Bod Company, a non-resident corporation, to solicit orders for lightning-rods. During the year 1911 he, together with another agent of that company, solicited a large number of orders in the City of Waycross. The manner in which…