Dixie Poster Advertising Co. v. City of Asheville

The object of this action is to restrain the collection of a tax levied by the city of Asheville for the privilege of advertising by tbe use of billboards. At tbe bearing tbe judge found certain facts, among wbicb are these: (1) Tbe plaintiff in tbe exercise of its corporate powers conducts a business known as “Outdoor Advertising,” and for this purpose maintains a large number of billboards and poster-boards situated on private property; (2) when tbe suit was instituted tbe plaintiff owned, leased and used about 150 boards, erected at a cost of more tban $10,000, tbe total posting surface of…