Odell v. City of Atlanta

Lumpkin, Justice.

While there are differences of opinion as to the propriety of betting upon horse-races, and it is doubtless a practice in which many respectable people engage, we feel perfectly safe in saying it is not one conducive to good morals or to the promotion of good order in the locality where it may *671prevail. Certainly, the beeping of an establishment for the purpose of enabling persons to bet upon horse-races is not a useful or necessary occupation which any citizen has either a common law or constitutional right to^ carry on. Indeed, it is, in our opinion, a misnomer to…