Phillips v. City of Mobile

Citations

• 208 U.S. 472
• 28 S. Ct. 370
• 52 L. Ed. 578
• 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1457

Syllabus

<p>An ordinance imposing a license on persons selling beer by the barrel is an exercise of the police power of the State, and as such is authorized by the Wilson Act, 26 Stat. 313, notwithstanding such liquors were introduced into the State in original packages.</p> <p>The police power of the State is very extensive and is frequently exercised where it also results im raising revenue, and in this case an ordinance imposing a license tax on a class of dealers in intoxicating liquor was held to be a police regulation notwithstanding it also produced a revenue.</p> <p>Where a license tax on dealers in a particular article is exacted without reference as to whether the article was manufactured within or without the State, the ordinance imposing it - creates no discrimination against manufacturers outside of the State within the meaning of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ’</p>