Bowen v. Smith-Hall Grocery Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Fite. Whitfield superior court. April 8, 1913. Grady Bowen filed bis petition for damages against tbe Smith-Hall Grocery Company. The petition as amended alleged, in substance, as follows: The Smith-Hall Grocery Company is a partnership doing business in the city of Dalton.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Fite. Whitfield superior court. April 8, 1913. Grady Bowen filed bis petition for damages against tbe Smith-Hall Grocery Company. The petition as amended alleged, in substance, as follows: The Smith-Hall Grocery Company is a partnership doing business in the city of Dalton. Its storehouse and place of business fronted on Hamilton street, the principal business street of the city, upon which at all times of the day there was a large amount of travel by pedestrians and all kinds of vehicles. At the time of the injury complained of there was in force in the city…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. Whether or not the ordinance requiring the proprietor of each business house to keep a covered garbage can outside of his place of business, and to cause to be placed therein all refuse, garbage, and trash, to be removed by the proper city officers, was purely a sanitary ordinance, or whether the requirement that it should be covered also included the idea of preventing the contents from being blown about the street, is not a controlling question in the case. The ordinance on its face appears to have been enacted as a sanitary measure. So considered, its…
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