POSTAL TEL.-CABLE CO. v. FREMONT

No. 156.

255 U.S. 124 (1921)

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY v. CITY OF FREMONT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John N. Sebrell, Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Robert E. Evans for defendant in error. Mr. Charles E. Abbott and Mr. John F. Rohn were also on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

The City of Fremont is a city of Nebraska of the first class, having more than 5,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitants. By an ordinance duly enacted in 1903 and reenacted in 1907, there was levied a license tax upon businesses and occupations within the city including telegraph offices. Upon these offices it levied a tax of $60.00 per year on the business and occupation of sending

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