Donaldson Baking Co. v. City of Elizabethtown

STEWART, Justice.

On February 6, 1950, the city council of Elizabethtown adopted as a part of its general regulatory licensing ordinance a requirement, in substance, fixing a fee of $26 per year for each truck operating from out of the city over its streets in loading and unloading freight or merchandise in the city. Donaldson Baking Company, a corporation operating a bakery in Louisville and delivering therefrom its products by trucks and wagons to various cities in Kentucky and Indiana, paid the foregoing license fee on April 14, 19'50, and was informed by the city authorities that it had…