City of East Point v. Minton

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) “Equity will not enjoin a criminal prosecution solely to prevent such a prosecution, but it will in any proper case, by injunction or otherwise, prevent injury or destruction of property.” Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. v. City of Columbus, 189 Ga. 458 (1), 464 (6 S. E. 2d, 320), and cases cited; City of Albany v. Lippitt, 191 Ga. 756 (1) (13 S. E. 2d, 807); Chandler v. City of Tifton, 206 Ga. 43 (4) (55 S. E. 2d, 568). The pleadings and evidence in the present case, showing that the defendants, in addition to making…