Kansas City v. Grush
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. John W. Woeeord, Judge. The city charter does not authorize the city to single out a merchant dealer in produce and tax him $50 and a merchant’s license, when a grocery merchant deals in all things a produce dealer handles, and only pays a merchant’s license.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. John W. Woeeord, Judge. The city charter does not authorize the city to single out a merchant dealer in produce and tax him $50 and a merchant’s license, when a grocery merchant deals in all things a produce dealer handles, and only pays a merchant’s license. E. S. 1889, see. 1900; Constitution, art. X, sec. 1; St. Louis v. Spriegel, 75 Mo. 145. (2) If this ordinance does not mean that a man must be both commission merchant and produce •dealer, to pay a $50 license, then the court could not properly convict defendant, because he was only a produce…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
Defendant was prosecuted and convicted in the criminal court of Jackson county, for the breach of an ordinance of said city entitled, “An ordinance regulating and defining the amount of license to be paid by artists, agents, hotels and others.”
Section 502 of said ordinance provides that “no person or corporation shall carry on or engage in the following occupations, trades, or business in the City of Kansas without a license therefor from said city and the charge for such license *131shall be as follows:.......Commission merchants and produce dealers. $50.”
By section 536 it is made a misdemeanor…
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- City of St. Louis v. SpiegelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
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