Legal Opinion

White v. City of Atlanta

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 11, 1910PublishedCited by 30 opinions

Petition for injunction. Before Judge Ellis. Pulton superior court.

1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.

By the act of August 14, 1909 (Acts 1909, p. 534), the corporate limits of the City of Atlanta were extended. Some of the residents and taxpayers of the territory which had previously been outside of the corporate limits, and which by the act was included therein, filed an equitable petition to enjoin the city and its officers from putting the act into effect so as to include such new territory. The injunction was denied. Numerous grounds of objection were raised. Most of them are controlled by decisions of this court heretofore rendered, and require no discussion beyond the rulings made in…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Mount Pleasant v. BeckwithSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  2. Cheaney v. HooserCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1848
  3. Toney v. Mayor of MaconSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
  4. Washburn v. City of OshkoshWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
  5. Cash v. Town of DouglasvilleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1894

3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Crabb v. Celeste Independent School DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Wheeler School District No. 152 v. HawleyWashington Supreme Court · 1943
  3. State v. City of MiamiSupreme Court of Florida · 1931
  4. DeLoach v. NewtonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1910
  5. Hines v. EtheridgeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1931

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