City of Winfield v. Hackney

Citations

• 87 Kan. 858
• 126 P. 1088
• 1912 Kan. LEXIS 256

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>City Ordinance — Dogs■—Taxation of Owner — Constitutional Law. The city had legislative authority to enact ordinances to regulate and provide for taxing the owners and harborers of dogs. It undertook to punish the owner of a dog for failure to register its name and to pay a sum of money, under “An Ordinance in relation to the registration of dogs in the City of Winfield and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.” Held, that the taxation of .owners of dogs is not . embraced in this subject, and under section 1349 of the General Statutes of 1909, requiring the subject of an ordinance to be clearly expressed in its title, such ordinance is void.</p>