State ex rel. Grantham v. City of Memphis

Mr. Malone, Special Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The questions presented by this record concern the constitutionality of an act of the legislature, and of an ordinance of the city of Memphis, regulating the licensing of plumbers.

The act in question is chapter 59 of the Public Acts of 1915, which provides for a board for the examination and licensing of plumbers in cities of more than 25,000 inhabitants, according to the federal census of 1910, and subsequent censuses.

The ordinance in question was passed by the city of Memphis in 1900, and also deals with the creation of a board…