Spur Distributing Co. v. Mayor C. of Americus

Reid, Chief Justice.

Four gasoline filling-station operators of • Americus, Georgia, filed their joint petition in equity against the City of Americus and its officers, asking the protection of the court from the effect of a certain city ordinance which undertook to require the payment for a business license of $100 per year by every operator of a gasoline filling-station within the city “who obtained their requirements from wholesalers not regularly licensed to do business within said city.” This requirement by way of business license was in addition to the regular business license required…