City of Davenport v. Rice

— The cause was tried by the court without a jury, and it is submitted upon appeal to this court upon the findings of fact and conclusions of law by the district court, which are as follows:

“ For several years a business association or firm, known as the ‘ Adams Manufacturing Company,’ has kept a retail store or ware-room in the city of Davenport, and a stock of miscellaneous house-furnishing goods therein for sale, on which stock it has been taxed by the city in the annual tax levy on taxable property, and has also paid a retailer’s license tax under the city ordinance *75providing therefor. At…