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WHITE v. ADAMS

No. 5-2290.

343 S.W.2d 793 (1961)

Bill Joe WHITE, County Treasurer, et al., Appellants, v. Julia ADAMS, doing business as Madame Rose, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 13, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry Shell, Pros. Atty, Jonesboro, by Julian Fogleman, Deputy Pros. Atty., West Memphis, for appellants.

Atlee Harris, West Memphis, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

By Act 48 of 1945 a privilege tax of $100 a week, payable to the county, was levied upon every person practising any form of fortune telling. Ark.Stats.1947, § 84-1520. The appellee, a professional fortune teller, brought this suit to enjoin the officials of Crittenden county from collecting the tax and to obtain a decree declaring the statute to be unconstitutional. The principal attacks upon the act are, first, that the tax is so...

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