Phillips v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. License. Pawnbrokers. Practice in Superior Court. Certiorari. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Pulton Superior Court. September Term, 1886. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
Phillips was summoned to answer before the recorder for engaging in the business of a pawnbroker without registering or obtaining a license. His counsel demurred to *774the-summons as not charging any offence legally punishable by fine; and. thé demurrer was overruled. Evidence was heard and a judgment rendered indicting a fine of $300. A certiorari to the superior court was obtained, and to that a return by the recorder was made. A portion of that return, as-to material facts, was traversed. That traverse was never disposed of. The judge of the superior court, the…
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