Edmonds v. City of St. Louis

The plaintiff-appellants, who operate restaurants in the City of St. Louis, brought a class injunction suit in the circuit court of that city on November 15,1939, against the defendants-respondents, to restrain them, from enforcing Ordinance 71614, approved June, 20,. 1939, on the ground that it. contravenes Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, Constitution of the United, States; six sections of the Missouri Constitution, hereinafter specified; and Secs. 7440 and 7744, R. S. 1939, Secs. 7287, 7596, Mo. Stat. Ann., pp. 5871, 6012. The ordinance levies a license tax of a flat sum per, annum on…