City of Odessa v. Borgic

CROSS, Judge.

This appeal of five consolidated cases challenges the authority of Odessa, Missouri, a city of the fourth class, to enact an ordinance requiring payment of an occupation license fee of not less than fifty dollars as prerequisite to the lawful operation of a trailer coach park within the corporate limits.

Each of the five cases originated in the police court of plaintiff city upon complaint that the defendant on a certain day named “did then and there unlawfully and willfully operate a trailer coach park without a license in violation of ordinance No. 954 of said city.” In each…