City of Charlottesville v. Marks' Shows, Inc.

In January, 1941, Marks’ Shows, Incorporated, which we will sometimes refer to as the plaintiff, filed in the court below a notice of motion for judgment against the city of Charlottesville seeking to recover certain license fees which the city had assessed and collected from it for the years 1935 through 1940, both inclusive, under appropriate ordinances, for the privilege of exhibiting its carnival shows and amusements during the respective years in Albemarle county, but within one mile of the corporate limits of the city. It was alleged that the ordinances which authorized the assessment…