Levy v. Kansas City
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Conducting the business of pool selling and book making in the state of Kansas, except within the inclosure of a race track for not exceeding two weeks in any year, was prohibited under a penalty of imprisonment for one year and a fine of $1,000 by section 1, c. 155, p. 294, of the Session Laws of Kansas of 1895. In April, 1898, the city council of Kansas City enacted an ordinance to the effect that any person might carry on the business of book making and pool selling in that city for an annual license fee of $5,000. The plaintiff brought an action against the city of…
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