Corley v. City of Atlanta

Bell, Justice.

W. C. Corley brought a suit for injunction against the City of Atlanta and. Dewey L. Johnson, superintendent of electrical affairs, to restrain the defendants from enforcing an ordinance to regulate the supervision of electrical energy and the installation of electrical construction and appliances, as adopted by the city council. The petition alleged that certain provisions of the ordinance requiring examination and fixing other conditions were invalid, for constitutional reasons. The plaintiff is a graduate electrical engineer, and has had more than twenty years experience in…