City of Cairo v. Adams Express Co.

Appellee was charged with a violation of the provisions of the following ordinance of the city of Cairo :

“ Section Six. Every person, copartnership or corporation carrying on the express business in the city of Cairo, shall be deemed an expressman or expressmen, and it shall be unlawful for any such expressman or expressmen to carry on the business within the city without a license as such. Such license may be obtained of the city clerk upon, payment into the city treasury of the sum of one hundred dollars per annum, in like manner as other licenses are issued, and any person, copartnership…