Mayor of Athens v. Camak
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. Contracts. Railroads. Injunction. Constitutional Law. Before Judge Estes. Clarke County. At Chambers.
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Municipal Corporations. Contracts. Railroads. Injunction. Constitutional Law. Before Judge Estes. Clarke County. At Chambers. August 31, 1885. To the report contained in the decision, it is necessary to add only the following: The clause of the charter of the city of Athens containing general powers is as follows : “ That the mayor and council of the city of Athens shall have full power to pass every other regulation or ordinance that shall appear to them necessary and proper for the security, welfare and interest of said city, or preserving the peace, health, order and good government of…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The discussion of this case took quite a wide range, and every point which the record presented, and which had even a remote bearing upon the issue involved, was carefully examined and closely canvassed. But the question upon which the grant of this injunction depends, we think, is confined to narrow limits.
The city of Athens, in the year 1873, subscribed for one thousand shares of stock in the Northeastern Railroad Company, which it was authorized by a vote of its citizens qualified to cast it, under and by virtue of an act of the general assembly of the state, and by the…
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