Chevrolet Motor Co. v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for injunction. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. March 20, 1922. The Chevrolet Motor Company, a corporation engaged in selling automobiles, owned and operated a store at 444 Whitehall Street, where it sold automobiles at wholesale, and another store at 221 Peachtree Street, where it sold automobiles at retail, both places of business being in the city of Atlanta.
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Petition for injunction. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. March 20, 1922. The Chevrolet Motor Company, a corporation engaged in selling automobiles, owned and operated a store at 444 Whitehall Street, where it sold automobiles at wholesale, and another store at 221 Peachtree Street, where it sold automobiles at retail, both places of business being in the city of Atlanta. The company paid a license tax of $120, and received from the city a receipt for such sum, which stated that the amount was “for License as Auto Dealer at No. 444 Whitehall Street, which authorizes said…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
The question is made whether, after the com-: pany had received and paid for a license to engage in business as a “ dealer in ” automobiles, the administrative officers of the city could during the life of such license require the company to procure and pay for another license to engage in business as a “ dealer in ” automobiles, on the ground that the company was a “ dealer in” automobiles in two sepárale places in the city, one of which was a retail business and the other a wholesale business. The power to exact and'collect for all licenses to engage in business in the City of Atlanta…
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