Geele v. State

Duckworth, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The constitutional question here presented is clearly made and calls for a forthright decision. The statute upon which the constitutional attacks are made is the act of 1910, sections 4, 5, and 6 (Ga. L. 1910, pp. 88, 89). The ground of attack is that the statute is discriminatory against hotels and inns charging their guests $2 and more, to which the law applies, and in favor of hotels and inns charging their guests less than $2, which are exempt from the requirement of the law that fire escapes on the outside be provided, and…