Greenberg

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment entered against them in the superior court of San Luis Obispo county, and is brought here on the judgment-roll alone.

The action was commenced in a justice’s court and transferred to the superior court, and its object was to recover from defendant the sum of ninety dollars, due to the plaintiff as a license tax, under and by virtue of a certain county ordinance, a copy ■of which was attached to the complaint.

It is alleged in the complaint that in February, 1892, the said -ordinance was duly passed and published by the board of supervisors of said county; that at all times since April 1, 1896, until January 1, 1897, defendants have been continuously, and now are, engaged in the business of selling goods, wares, and merchandise, and conducting a general merchandise store, at a fixed place of business in said county and their receipts therefrom amounted to over fifteen hundred dollars per quarter; and they also at said times and place sold fermented, malt, spirituous, and mixed liquors in large quantities; that on or about the first day of April, 1896, and on the first day of each quarter thereafter, plaintiff through its county…