Melton v. City of Paris

Appellants, G.D. Melton and Pete Young, filed their bill in the circuit court of Edgar county against appellees, the city of Paris, Illinois, and its officers and agents, to enjoin them from enforcing a wheel tax ordinance on the ground that it is illegal, void, unconstitutional and unreasonable; that it is not in force and effect; that the newspaper in which it was published was not the official newspaper of the city. Upon a hearing the bill was dismissed for want of equity, and an appeal has been prosecuted to this court.

The cause was tried upon a stipulation and certain documentary…