State v. Ide

Citations

• 35 Wash. 576
• 67 L.R.A. 280
• 77 P. 961
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 484

Syllabus

<p>Taxation — Uniformity—Poll Tax Exempting Males oe Certain Ages, Females, and Members oe Volunteer Fire Companies — Acquiescence. Section 938, Bal. Code, providing that cities of the third class may levy upon and collect from every male inhabitant between certain ages, an annual street poll tax, but exempting therefrom members of volunteer fire companies, and city ordinances providing for the levy and collection of such a tax, and making the refusal to pay a misdemeanor, are unconstitutional and void, as in violation of art. 7, § 9, Const., requiring uniformity in taxation of persons and property; and long continued acquiescence therein cannot sanction the clear infraction of the law.</p>