Central Telephone Co. v. City of Nashville

1. The Central Telephone Company of Georgia sued to enjoin enforcement of a license tax of fifty dollars for the year 1933, assessed by the City of Nashville, in which the telephone company had an office and conducted a telephone business. It was alleged in the petition that the tax was unreasonable, excessive, and confiscatory; that the total gross receipts from intrastate business at the exchange in the City of Nashville for the year 1932 amounted to $5015.58; that its interstate business totalled $74.39, amounting in the aggregate to $5089.97; that the total operating expense for the year…