Reading City v. Bitting

Citations

• 167 Pa. 21
• 31 A. 359
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 856

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Gilíes of the third class — License on milk wagon — Act of Miay 23, 1889.</p> <p>Under the act of May 23, 1889, art. 5, sec. 3, P. L. 277, -which confers on cities of the third class the power to collect a license tax, inter alia, on “ drays, hacks, carriages, omnibuses, carts, wagons, street railway cars and other vehicles used in the city for hire or pay,” a city has no authority to impose a license tax upon the delivery wagon of a milkman.</p>