Baker v. City of LaFayette

Bell, Justice.

In the instant suit by an owner of pin-ball machines against the Mayor and Council of the City of LaEayette, praying for a judgment declaring that an ordinance of the city, prohibiting the operation of pin-ball machines and similar machines as described therein, is invalid, and that plaintiff’s machines do not come within its provisions, also for injunctive and general relief, held:

1. Under the charter of the City of LaEayette (Ga. L. 1914, pp. 936, 958, § 51), the mayor and council had authority to pass the ordinance in question.

2. The allegations of the petition as amended,…