Reading City v. Bitting
Reading City v. Bitting
Opinion of the Court
The ordinance under which the city seeks to collect a license
The court below was right therefore in holding that the defendant was not liable for the license imposed by the city upon the wagon he used in delivering milk to his customers, and the judgment is now affirmed.
Reference
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- Reading City v. John H. Bitting
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- 3 cases
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- Syllabus
- Municipalities — Gilíes of the third class — License on milk wagon — Act of Miay 23, 1889. Under the act of May 23, 1889, art. 5, sec. 3, P. L. 277, -which confers on cities of the third class the power to collect a license tax, inter alia, on “ drays, hacks, carriages, omnibuses, carts, wagons, street railway cars and other vehicles used in the city for hire or pay,” a city has no authority to impose a license tax upon the delivery wagon of a milkman.