Chicago Portrait Co. v. Mayor of Macon

SPEER, District Judge.

The Chicago Portrait Company, a corporation of the state of Illinois, brings its bill against the mayor and council of the city of Macon, and asks an injunction against the enforcement of a tax upon the complainant’s agents, upon the ground that such enforcement is repugnant to article 1, § 8, par. 3, of the Constitution of the United States. W. E. Chrystal was one of the complainant’s agents. His case was taken as typical of the others, and the case submitted upon the following agreed upon facts:

“Ghrystal was a nonresident of the state of Georgia. The Chicago Portrait…