City of Leavenworth v. Booth
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Leavenworth Criminal Court. Booth, ail agent of a foreign life-insurance company, was prosecuted before the police court for a violation of an ordinance of The City of Leavenworth requiring foreign insurance companies to pay certain license-taxes for the privilege of doing business in said city.
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Appeal from Leavenworth Criminal Court. Booth, ail agent of a foreign life-insurance company, was prosecuted before the police court for a violation of an ordinance of The City of Leavenworth requiring foreign insurance companies to pay certain license-taxes for the privilege of doing business in said city. The action was removed by appeal to the criminal court,* where a trial was had at the December Term 1874. It was a test case, for the purpose of determining the validity of said city ordinance. The facts were agreed upon, and all those material to the questions decided here, are stated in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
On March 2d 1870, an act of the legislature of Kansas, amending “an act to incorporate cities of the second class,” was passed, which provides among other things, as follows:
“The mayor and council of each city created or controlled by this act, shall have the care, management and control of the city, and its property and finances, and shall have power to enact and ordain any ordinances not repugnant to the constitution'and laws of this state, and such ordinances to alter, modify, or repeal, and shall have power * * * to levy and collect a…
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2Cases cited13 opinions
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- People v. ColemanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1854
- Chilvers v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1862
- People v. ThurberIllinois Supreme Court · 1852
- Anderson v. Kerns Draining Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1860
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3Cited by26 opinions
- People v. ColemanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1854
- Wheeler v. WeightmanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1915
- City of Newton v. AtchisonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1883
- New York Life Insurance v. HardisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Phœnix Insurance v. WelchSupreme Court of Kansas · 1883
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