County of El Dorado v. Meiss

On March 3,1891, the board of supei’visors of El Dorado county passed an ordinance requiring “every person engaged in the business of raising, grazing, herding or pasturing sheep and goats, or sheep or goats,” in that county, to procure from the license tax collector a license therefor. The ordinance made it the duty of the license collector to collect the license, and further provided that he might enforce the collection, “ as provided by section 3360 of the Political Code”; that is, by action brought for that purpose in the name of the people of the State.

In April, 1891, the supervisors of…