Wingfield v. Kutres
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. October 22, 1910. Nicholas Nutres instituted suit against S. B. Wingfield as ordinary, and W. E. Jackson as sheriff, of Clarke county, to restrain the collection of four executions which had been issued against the plaintiff by the ordinary and levied by the sheriff.
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Injunction. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. October 22, 1910. Nicholas Nutres instituted suit against S. B. Wingfield as ordinary, and W. E. Jackson as sheriff, of Clarke county, to restrain the collection of four executions which had been issued against the plaintiff by the ordinary and levied by the sheriff. The executions were issued on account of a failure to pay certain fees alleged to be due for licenses to sell near beer in the county of Clarke, under the provisions of section 3 of the act approved September 5th, 1908 (Acts 1908, p. 1112), two of them issuing on account of…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
In support of the contention that section three requires a separate license for each place of business in the county of a dealer in the beverages therein referred to, counsel for the plaintiffs in error urged that the act is a police measure and also a revenue measure, and that whether it be considered as a revenue measure pure and simple, or police measure pure and simple, or as of the dual character, having for its purpose both regulation and revenue, it is inconceivable that the General Assembly intended that the payment of one license fee should authorize a license designating no place of…
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