Mayor of Rome v. Lumpkin
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari — Floyd Superior Court, before Judge Wright, May Term, 1848.- Judge Lumpkin did not preside in this cause, one of the parties being a relative. The city of Rome was incorporated by an Act approved 29th day of December, 1847. On the same day, and before the organization of the corporate authorities, the defendants obtained license from the Clerk of the Inferior Court of Floyd county, to retail spirituous liquors in said county.
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Certiorari — Floyd Superior Court, before Judge Wright, May Term, 1848.- Judge Lumpkin did not preside in this cause, one of the parties being a relative. The city of Rome was incorporated by an Act approved 29th day of December, 1847. On the same day, and before the organization of the corporate authorities, the defendants obtained license from the Clerk of the Inferior Court of Floyd county, to retail spirituous liquors in said county. After their organization, the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Rome passed an ordinance requiring persons retailing liquois within the corporate limits, to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.,
delivering the opinion.
From the record in this case, it appears that the defendants in error were fined twenty-five dollars for an alleged violation of *448the corporation laws of the city of Rome in this, that they retailed spirituous liquors, within the limits of said corporation, without having obtained a license from the corporate authorities of the city, as required by an ordinance thereof. The defendants obtained a certioriari from the Superior Court, directed to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city, and upon the hearing thereof, the Superior Court reversed the…
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