Legal Opinion
Chandler v. City of Tifton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 11, 1949No. 16779PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Almand, Justice.
Under the act of 1935 (Ga. L. 1935, p. 492), as amended by the act of 1941 (Ga. L. 1941, p. 234), the sale of wine at retail in any county in this State is legal, if such sale has not been prohibited by an election held pur suant to section 4 of the act of 1935, supra, as amended by the acts of 1937 and 1947 (Ga. L. 1937, p. 851; Ga. L. 1947, p. 1178). Such business is a lawful one, and though a municipality has the power to require the payment of a license fee and may refuse to grant a license for the sale of wine upon proper cause or revoke a license upon proper cause after…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. City of ColumbusSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
- McKown v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1937
- Morton v. Mayor of MaconSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
- Richardson v. CokerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
- Atlantic Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Mayor of SavannahSupreme Court of Georgia · 1909
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Chanin v. Bibb CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Shaffer v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1967
- City of Tifton v. CooperSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950
- City of East Point v. MintonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1951
- City of Eatonton v. PeckSupreme Court of Georgia · 1951
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