Bragg v. Adams

The appellees, plaintiffs, residents of the incorporated town of West Memphis, brought suit in the chancery court to enjoin the mayor and marshal from collecting a license on their hotel buildings, under the provisions of an ordinance passed some time previous to the filing of their complaint, on the ground that the ordinance was void because its purpose was to raise revenue, and because tbe town bad no authority to pass an ordinance licensing hotels.

The appellants, defendants, defended on the ground that the ordinance was not a revenue measure, and that it was a valid exercise of the police…