CITY OF TUSCALOOSA v. TUSCALOOSA VENDING CO., INC.

87-454, 87-455.

545 So.2d 13 (1989)

CITY OF TUSCALOOSA v. TUSCALOOSA VENDING COMPANY, INC., and Kyle Office Supply Company, Inc. CITY OF TUSCALOOSA v. BURUM-HAHN EXTERMINATORS, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 5, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Ennis IV, City Atty., and Burton Flanagan, Asst. City Atty., Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

C. Barton Adcox and David L. Carroll of Rosen, Harwood, Cook & Sledge, Tuscaloosa, for appellees.

Barry L. Mullins of Lee, Barrett, Mullins, Smith & Smithart, Tuscaloosa, for amicus curiae Home Builders Ass'n of Tuscaloosa, Inc., in support of the appellees.

James K. Baker, City Atty. for City of Birmingham, for amicus curiae, Birmingham, in support of the appellant.

John G. Harrell of Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, in support of the appellant.

Charles L. Anderson of Wood & Parnell, Montgomery, for amicus curiae The Homebuilders Ass'n of Alabama in support of the appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.1

The issue in these appeals is whether the City of Tuscaloosa can impose on businesses located within its corporate limits a license fee based upon the gross receipts of those businesses despite the fact that some of those receipts are derived from transactions conducted outside the city's corporate limits.

The facts were stipulated to by the parties. Plaintiffs in No...

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