Laclede Gas Co. v. City of St. Louis

*845CONKLING, J.

The City of St. Louis, Missouri, Joseph T. Hayden, the city’s License Collector, and Milton Carpenter, the city’s Comptroller [all hereinafter referred to as defendants] have appealed from a declaratory judgment entered in an action wherein the petition of Laclede Gas Company, a corporation, [hereinafter called plaintiff] sought the court’s construction of the city’s Ordinance No. 41325 [Secs. 95-97, Chap. 55, Rev. Code of St. Louis, 1948] which imposed a license tax of 5% on plaintiff’s gross receipts from the sale of gas in said city. The five persons named in the caption, who…