Taranto v. Richardson

In tbe years 1928 and 1929 the plaintiffs were engaged in the business of operating a billiard parlor in the City of Atlanta. In 1927 the General Assembly passed a general tax act (Ga. L. 1927, p. 56) which prescribed a tax upon persons, firms, or corporations operating a billiard parlor in cities with a population of 100,000 or more. In January, 1928, the plaintiffs filed an action in the superior court against Eichardson, as duly authorized tax-collector of Fulton County, to restrain him from collecting the above tax on the ground that the act imposing the tax was unconstitutional; and on…