52 Ark. 301 | Ark. | 1889
Section 351 of Mansfield’s Digest provides that all municipal corporations shall have power “to regulate drumming or soliciting persons who arrive on trains or otherwise, for' hotels, boarding houses, bath houses or doctors,” and to license.such drummers, and to provide that each drummer shall wear a badge plainly exposed to view, showing for whom and for what he is drumming or soliciting patronage, and to punish by finé any violation of such provision. In pursuance of this section the council of the City of Fayetteville passed an ordinance forbidding all persons to drum or solicit patronage from persons who arrive on trains or otherwise, for any hotel or boarding house, without having first obtained a license to do so, and paid therefor the sum of $12.50, and making a violation thereof an offense punishable by fine. In a prosecution against appellee this ordinance, without any evidence of its invalidity except the ordinance itself, was held void, because the $12.50 was an unreasonable fee for the license.
Reversed and remanded for a new trial.