Joyce v. City of East St. Louis

Citations

• 77 Ill. 156

Syllabus

<p>1. License—power to require license for vehicles construed. A provision in a city charter gave the power “ to license, tax and regulate and control wagons and other vehicles conveying- loads in the city; to prescribe the width and tire of the same, the weight of loads to be carried and the rates of carriage: ” Held, that, under the rule of strict construction appli, cable to such powers, the authority to license was qualified by the clause for prescribing rates of carriage, and was applicable only to such vehicles in respect of w-lxich it is proper and customary with municipal authorities to prescribe rates of carriage, viz: those used by common carriers in the city for hire.</p> <p>2. Police begülation—rates of carriage by carrier's. The fixing of the rates of carriage by liackmen, draymen and the like, is an ordinary police regulation to protect the public against extortion and imposition on the part of those engaged in the business of common carriers for hire. One using a vehicle not for hire, bnt only in the course of his ordinary private business, does not come within the reason or necessity of any such municipal regulation.</p>