Legal Opinion
City of Birmingham v. Birmingham Business College, Inc.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 14, 1951No. 6 Div. 233PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, Justice.
The question on this appeal is whether a license placed by an ordinance of the City of Birmingham, approved November 3, 1948, entitled “School” and numbered section 231, upon a business college (which includes a commercial college, trade school or dancing school, but no- other sort of school) is valid in so far as a business college is concerned.
The trial court held the ordinance invalid, without specifying the grounds for so- holding. ' We agree with that result.
The attacks made upon the ordinance are, (1) that the public policy of the State is against taxing school property,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- City of Huntsville v. Madison CountySupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
- State v. BridgesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1945
- Anniston City Land Co. v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
- State v. City of MontgomerySupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- City of Birmingham v. State Ex Rel. CarmichaelSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Coyne Electrical School v. PaschenIllinois Supreme Court · 1957
- Ray Schools-Chicago-Inc. v. CumminsIllinois Supreme Court · 1957
- Al Means, Inc. v. City of MontgomerySupreme Court of Alabama · 1958
- McKee v. EvansAlaska Supreme Court · 1971
- Shuttlesworth v. City of BirminghamAlabama Court of Appeals · 1965
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