Felton v. City of Atlanta
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Certiorari, from Fulton superior court — Judge Ellis. December 13, 1907. The plaintiff in error was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta of an alleged violation of section 887 of the city code, which provides, “No person, firm, or corporation, engaged in or working at the business of plumbing, shall engage in or work at said business in the city of Atlanta, either as master, employing, or journejnnan plumber, unless such person, firm,- or corporation…
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Certiorari, from Fulton superior court — Judge Ellis. December 13, 1907. The plaintiff in error was convicted in the recorder’s court of the City of Atlanta of an alleged violation of section 887 of the city code, which provides, “No person, firm, or corporation, engaged in or working at the business of plumbing, shall engage in or work at said business in the city of Atlanta, either as master, employing, or journejnnan plumber, unless such person, firm,- or corporation first receives a license therefor, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.” By other sections provision-is made…
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
1. The common inherent right which every citizen has of enjoying the inestimable blessing of laboring at any honest employment he may choose, save only so far as restrictions are necessary to the protection of the public peace, health, safety, and morality, is so well established that limitations thereon are to be strictly construed. Salus populi suprema lex; this, as Judge Bleckley has so happily expressed it (Green v. Coast Line R. Co., 97 Ga. 34, 24 S. E. 814, 33 L. R. A. 806, 54 Am. St. R. 379) is the whole gospel of public policy, condensed in a single text. Wherever the salus populi…
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