Texas Co. v. Brown
District Court, N.D. Georgia
In Equity. Suit by the Texas Company against J. J. Brown, Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Georgia, and others.
1Opinion of the CourtSibrey, District Judge
(with whom concurs BEVERRY D. EVANS, District Judge). By a law of Georgia, passed in 1890 (Park’s Pol. Code, § 1800 and following), kerosene and petroleum and products thereof were required to be inspected under specified standards, for which fees were fixed of one-half cent per gallon for lots exceeding 400 gallons, and a larger fee for smaller lots, the fees to be paid monthly into the state treasury, less certain amounts, not to exceed 8100 per month, which the inspectors might retain as their compensation. In 1912 this act was extended expressly to gasoline, benzine, and naphtha. Park’s…
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