Legal Opinion
Wright v. Forrester
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 10, 1941No. 13851PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson, Presiding Justice.
In section 20 of the general tax act Of 1927 (Ga. L. 1927, pp. 56, 62) a tax was imposed on persons' Carrying on specified businesses in cities, graduated in amount on the basis of population of the cities. - On January 10, 1928, J. C. Wright and others brought suit to enjoin collection of taxes so''imposed upon them, the ground of complaint being that the section 20. of the act' was unconstitutional. The suit on final trial June - 4, 1929, was terminated by a decree of the supérior court holding the act unconstitutional and enjoining collection of the tax. In the…
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