Schoen Bros. v. City of Atlanta

Simmons, Chief Justice.

An ordinance of the City of Atlanta provided as follows:

“Whenever the chief of police or sanitary inspectors shall be informed of any dead horse, mule, cow or other animal being within the corporate limits of the City of Atlanta, he or they shall cause said carcass to be removed beyond said limits and then properly buried or disposed of so as not to create a nuisance, and any person or persons other than those employed, who shall remove the carcass of any such animal, shall, on conviction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty…