Mayor of Montezuma v. Minor
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. Montezuma. Nuisance. Laws.. Injunction. Before Judge . Fort. Macon County. At Chambers, January 16,1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The chancellor, on a bill filed for that purpose; granted a writ of prohibition to tho mayor and town council of Montezuma, commanding them to desist from abating a *192nuisance within the corporate limits of the town; and the grant of that writ is assigned as error here.
1. The question is whether the town authorities were empowered to abate this nuisance, it being a mill and machinery run by water.
By the act of 1833, Code, §§4094, 4095, 4096, 4097, it is enacted that any nuisance may be abated by two justices of the peace upon the opinion of twelve freeholders of the…
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