Moise

Plaintiff: commenced an action to obtain a decree perpetually enjoining the defendant, its tax collector, agents, and employees, from collecting a license tax provided in a purported ordinance, and from enforcing the provisions of said ordinance, and to declare said ordinance null and void. The defendant city appeared and answered; judgment went for the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed. To support his appeal, the plaintiff has brought up the judgment-roll including an agreed statement of facts in lieu of findings of fact. The agreed statement sets forth everything that is set forth in the complaint and answer and some additional matters. From the statement we are informed that the- defendant is a municipal corporation ; that the plaintiff is a broker engaged in selling stocks and bonds; that on July 1, 1920, an ordinance became effective under and by virtue of the terms of which a license tax is imposed upon brokers engaged in such a business as is the plaintiff; that by the terms of the ordinance all police officers are appointed inspectors of' licenses and as such required to examine all places of business and persons on their respective beats liable to pay a license,…