Williams v. City of Talladega
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. The facts, which involve the validity of an ordinance of a municipality in Alabama to impose a license fee on telegraph corporations transacting an intrastate business without exempting messages sent by the Government, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. The facts, which involve the validity of an ordinance of a municipality in Alabama to impose a license fee on telegraph corporations transacting an intrastate business without exempting messages sent by the Government, are stated in the opinion. The act of July 24, 1866, §§ 5263-5268, Rev. Stat., granted to the telegraph company accepting its provisions the right to go into any State, and as an agéncy of the Government to construct, operate and maintain telegraph lines along, over and upon the post roads, and over, under or across the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
This is a writ of error to review the judgment of.the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama affirming the judgment of the City Court of Talladega. 164 Alabama, 633.
D. G. Williams, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of doing business in the City of Talladega, as agent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, from October 1, 1908, to December 31, 1908, without taking out and paying for a license, in violation of an ordinance of the city. The ordinance contained a schedule of licenses for divers businesses, vocations, occupations and professions carried on in the city, among others, the…
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