Town of Holbrook v. Nutting

This is an appeal by the town of Holbrook and various officers thereof, defendants, from an order of the superior court permanently enjoining them from enforcing against W. Dean Nutting, plaintiff, as a condition precedent to his engaging in the practice of law and the conducting of a title and abstract business in said town, the provisions of a certain ordinance imposing a license tax.

The sole question is whether the ordinance imposing such license tax is void as beyond the power of the town to enact.

The town of Holbrook is incorporated under the provisions of article 2, chapter 16, Arizona…