Chrystal v. Mayor of Macon

The Chicago Portrait Company carried on through its agents in this State a business the nature of which is sufficiently indicated in the headnotes. Chrystal, one of its delivering agents, was, in the municipal court of the City of Macon, convicted of “doing business in said city without a license.” The only defense he set up was that the ordinance under which he was prosecuted was violative of the interstate commerce clause of the Federal constitution, and his petition for certiorari presented for adjudication this question only. The judge of the superior court refused to sanction the…