Coggins v. Davis

1. An ordinance of a municipal corporation provided that all persons resident of such municipality, who “under the laws of the State of Georgia would be liable to-perform road duty,” should be liable to pay a tax or work on the streets of such municipality; and all persons so residing, who under the State law would be subject to sucli duty, come within such ordinance, even though the citizens of the county within which such municipality is located are not subject to any road duty, by virtue of a special State law relating to the duties of the commissioners of such county.

2. The fact that such…