Anthony v. City of Atlanta

The defendant, an operator of a “beauty shop,”* was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta of violating section 1 of an ordinance of the city known as the “ beauty-shop ordinance.” That section prescribed minimum prices to be charged by operators of beauty shops. Another section of the ordinance prescribed the hours during which such shops could remain open for business. The specific charge against the defendant was that he charged a customer $1.50 for a “permanent wave,” when the minimum price fixed by the ordinance was $2.50. The defendant’s certiorari was overruled by a…