Lappin v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
In error to the Police Court of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: The plaintiff in error, Robinson Lappin, was convicted in the police court of the District upon an information charging him with engaging in the business of a general broker without having first paid the license tax imposed by the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902 [23 Stat at L. 621, p. 1352], and has been granted a writ of error. ^ The tax which the plaintiff…
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In error to the Police Court of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: The plaintiff in error, Robinson Lappin, was convicted in the police court of the District upon an information charging him with engaging in the business of a general broker without having first paid the license tax imposed by the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902 [23 Stat at L. 621, p. 1352], and has been granted a writ of error. ^ The tax which the plaintiff in error failed to pay is provided for in par. 15, § 6, of the act aforesaid, which reads as follows: “Par. 15. General…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
In the several assignments of error the constitutionality of the act imposing the tax in question is assailed on the broad ground that it makes an arbitrary and unjust discrimination between persons pursuing the same calling under substantially the same conditions. If this contention be sound, the judgment must be reversed.
It must be conceded that the 14th Amendment, which expressly declares that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, does not purport to extend to authority exercised by the United States. David *76son v. Wight, 181 U. S. 371,…
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