Moultrie Milk Shed Inc. v. City of Cairo

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The defendants in error contend that the present action is in essence an attempt to enjoin criminal prosecutions, and cite many decisions of this court in support of the statement that equity will not interfere with the administration of criminal law. In Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Columbus, 189 Ga. 458 (6 S. E. 2d, 320), and again in City of Albany v. Lippitt, 191 Ga. 756 (13 S. E. 2d, 807), we undertook to put at rest all uncertainty as to the circumstances under which equity would enjoin a criminal prosecution. It was…