Kizee v. Conway

J. W. Kizee, Sr., and the five other plaintiffs in error had, prior to January 1, 1945, been operating taxicabs in the city of Danville under successive annual permits or licenses granted to them by the city council, which ran concurrently with the calendar year and automatically expired on December 31 of each year. Their last permits had been granted under a comprehensive ordinance designed “To Regulate the Licensing and Operation of Public Vehicles, Taxicabs and For Hire Cars” on the city’s streets, adopted on August 12, 1940, and thereafter amended.

In the fall of 1944 the council amended…