CITY OF CENTRAL v. AXTON

No. 19977.

373 P.2d 300 (1962)

The CITY OF CENTRAL, a municipal corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. William L. AXTON, individually, and doing business as the Glory Hole Tavern, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

July 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert B. Dawkins, City Atty., Denver, for City of Central.

Fugate, Mitchem, McGinley & Hoffman, Richard L. Whitworth, Denver, for defendant in error.


SUTTON, Justice.

This writ of error involves the question of whether the City of Central was authorized under its charter to enact an ordinance imposing an occuaptional tax on the business of William L. Axton. The parties are here in the same order as in the trial court where the City was plaintiff and Axton defendant. We will so refer to the parties.

The City was incorporated by virtue of a charter granted by the Territorial Legislature in 1864. Under C.R...

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