Haywood v. Mayor of Savannah
Supreme Court of Georgia
Ceitiorari, from Chatham Superior Court. Decided by Judge H. R. Jackson. 28th December, 1852. Alfred Haywood was fined the sum of thirty dollars with costs,by the City Counsel of Savannah, for the violation of an ordinance prohibiting the purchase of a larger quantity of fish in the market, than was necessary for the use and consumption of his family. A ceitiorari was applied for to the Judge of the Sup.erior Court, whose refusal to grant the writ is assigned as error.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
|[1.] The facts in this case, are briefly these : The plaintiff in ■error, Alfred Haywood, was brought up before the Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, and fined $30, for buying in the market house, fish in quantity greater than was requisite for the use and consumption of his family, contrary to the Ordinance of the 'City, passed 30th of January, 1851. On ceitiorari to the Superior Court, the Judge affirmed the judgment, and this writ of error is brought to reverse this decision. And the only question is, had the municipal authorities the power to…
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