Gulledge v. Augusta Coach Co.

Worrill, Justice.

The petitioners are suing as citizens and

taxpayers. Ordinarily, only parties having an interest in the subject matter of the franchise are entitled to complain of the grant of a franchise to a public-service corporation by a city council. See,’ in this connection, Palmer v. Atlantic Ice & Coal Corp., 178 Ga. 405, 414 (173 S. E. 424); 44 C. J. 1381, § 4560, note 79; 64 C. J. S. 948, § 2135, note 54; Clark v. Interstate Independent Telephone Company., 72 Neb. 883 (101 N. W. 977); Warden v. City of Elroy, 162 Wis. 495 (156 N. W. 466). Even if some of the acts complained of were…