Decker v. McGowan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Tax. Municipal corporations. License. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham County. At Chambers. January 9, 1877. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
The complainants number not much less than two hundred persons. They describe themselves as “ merchants and dealers in malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors, and intoxicating bitters, and other articles of like character, in the city of Savannah.” They pray for an injunction against the tax collector of Chatham county, to restrain him from collecting from them a tax imposed in 1876 (pam. acts, p. 136) “ upon all dealers in patent or intoxicating bitters, brandy fruit, or other articles of like character, the sum of twenty-five dollars .for each place of business where such…
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