Ex parte Hutchinson

Citations

• 137 F. 950
• 1905 U.S. App. LEXIS 5021

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations—Trading Stamp Ordinance—Constitutionality.</p> <p>A city ordinance making it unlawful for any person to sell goods and merchandise by selling trading stamps to merchants for delivery to their customers with purchases, without paying an annual license tax of $200, whether or not authorized by the city’s charter, is in violation of the rights secured to citizens affected thereby by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and void; being neither a legiti•mate exercise of the taxing power, nor a reasonable police regulation.</p>