Clark v. Titusville
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE PENNSYLVANIA.' The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustioe McKenna
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is here on error to the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania. . It involves the constitutionality of an ordinance of the city of Titusville imposing a license tax upon the merchants of the city. The particular contention is that the ordinance violates the equality prescribed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, in that it divides the merchants into arbitrary classes.
The trial court sustained the ordinance, and its judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court upon the opinion delivered by the…
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