Los Angeles & West Side Transportation Co. v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent superior court from proceeding with the trial of an action pending in said court to recover on behalf of the state certain license taxes imposed on motor vehicles for hire. A determination of the proceeding requires a review of the legislation on the subject.

At its session in 1923 the legislature passed an act to impose a license fee, measured at four per cent of the gross receipts, for the transportation of persons or property for hire by motor vehicles upon public streets, roads and highways of the state. The act…