Supreme Court of the United States, 1908

Richard v. City of Mobile

Richard v. City of Mobile
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 24, 1908 · Peckham
208 U.S. 480; 28 S. Ct. 372; 52 L. Ed. 581; 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1458 (United States Reports)

Richard v. City of Mobile

Opinion

Mr. Justice Peckham

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of . the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama, sustaining-the demurrer of the City of Mobile to a bill filed by the appellants, and dismissing the same. It appears that the appellants sought to obtain- an injunction to restrain the city from collecting the amount of the license tax 'imposed under the ordinance of the city upon those who were engaged in sell-’ ing beer in the city by the barrel, half barrel or quarter barrel.

*481 The question involved is, as counsel for appellants admits, identical with' that which has just been decided in the foregoing case; No. 113, and for the reasons therein stated the judgment of the Circuit Court is .

Affirmed.

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