Wadley Southern Railway Co. v. Faglee

1. This court has jurisdiction to “decide questions of law that involve application, in a general sense, of unquestioned and unambiguous provisions of the constitution to a given state of facts, and that do not involve construction of some constitutional provision directly in question and doubtful either under its own terms or under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State or of the United States.” Gulf Paving Co. v. Atlanta, 149 Ga. 114. Under this ruling and the facts of the instant case, this court has the authority to decide the constitutional question raised.

2. Generally the…