State v. Doherty
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court, Shoshone County. The only limitation upon the taxing power of the legislature is equality and uniformity. (People v. Burr, 13 Cal. 343; People v. Seymour, 16 Cal/ 332, 76 Am. Dee. 521, and note; Beals v. Amador Go., 35 Cal. 624; Railroad Go. v. StocTcton, 41 Cal. 148; People v. Brooks, 16 Cal. 11.) ’ Uniformity requires that the law affect alike all persons or things of the same class. (People v. Coleman, 4 Cal. 46, 60 Am.
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APPEAL from District Court, Shoshone County. The only limitation upon the taxing power of the legislature is equality and uniformity. (People v. Burr, 13 Cal. 343; People v. Seymour, 16 Cal/ 332, 76 Am. Dee. 521, and note; Beals v. Amador Go., 35 Cal. 624; Railroad Go. v. StocTcton, 41 Cal. 148; People v. Brooks, 16 Cal. 11.) ’ Uniformity requires that the law affect alike all persons or things of the same class. (People v. Coleman, 4 Cal. 46, 60 Am. Dec. 581; Brooks v. Hyde, 37 Cal. 367; Ex parte Smith, 38 Cal. 710; Ex parte Lichtenstein, 67 Cal. 359, 56 Am. Eep. 713, 7 Pac. 728.) The word…
1Opinion of the CourtSullivan, C. J.
This is an action brought to recover from the defendants the sum of $125, alleged to be due the state for a license for selling intoxicating liquors for the quarter commencing October 1, 1891, and involves the constitutionality of an act entitled “An act to regulate the sale of intoxicatingliquors,” approved February 6,1891. (See Idaho 1st Sess. Laws, p. 33.) The case was tried upon an agreed stipulation of facts, and judgment rendered by the court below in favor of the plaintiff, from which judgment this appeal was taken. The appellants contend that the court below erred (1) in holding that…
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