Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Mayor
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certified questions; from Court of Appeals. Case No. 5127. “An ordinance of tbe City of Cordele laid a tax of one hundred dollars upon each and every telegraph company for business done exclusively within the City of Cordele, not including any business done to or from points from without the State of Georgia, and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or agents.
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Certified questions; from Court of Appeals. Case No. 5127. “An ordinance of tbe City of Cordele laid a tax of one hundred dollars upon each and every telegraph company for business done exclusively within the City of Cordele, not including any business done to or from points from without the State of Georgia, and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or agents. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Companjr, having failed to pay the tax, was adjudged guilty, and sentenced to pay the penalty prescribed. The following questions of law raised by the record, a…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) An ordinance passed by the municipal authorities of Cordele, which laid a tax of $100 on each telegraph company doing business in, the city, covering both the interstate and the intrastate business of 'a company which had accepted and was acting under the act of Congress of July 24, 1866 (Rev. Stat. U. S. §§ 5263-5268), was held invalid. Postal Telegraph-Gable Co. v. Mayor and Council of Cordele, 139 Ga. 126 (76 S. E. 744, 31 Ann. Cas. (1914A) 984). Having held that the ordinance was invalid for the reason that it interfered with interstate business of the…
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