Baker v. City of Atlanta

Hawkins, Justice.

H. R. Baker and fourteen other named persons filed in Fulton Superior Court a petition in their own behalf and in behalf of all others similarly situated, against the City of Atlanta, a municipal corporation, C. A. Page, F. H. Rainwater, and J. W. Van Hitch, composing the City Barber Board, in which it was alleged that plaintiffs were barbers, working in barber shops in the City of Atlanta, two of whom own and operate barber shops, and have property rights involved, and in which they sought to have the barbering ordinance of the City of Atlanta, known as sections 7.1 through…