Silverman v. Mayor &C. of Savannah

Pannell, Judge.

Harry Silverman and Jack E. Miller, complainants, brought an action against the Mayor & Aldermen of the City of Savannah, seeking refund of $105 license fees paid to the defendants under protest and threat of criminal prosecution, and among the constitutional attacks made upon the ordinance providing for the tax was one in paragraph 5 of the petition on the ground that the ordinance, as it applies to the attorneys at law, is in violation of Article I, Section IV, Paragraph I of the Constitution of the State of Georgia (Code Ann. § 2-401), which provides that "laws of a general…