Mystyle Hosiery Shops Inc. v. Harrison

Tlie general tax act approved August 29, 1929 (Ga. Laws 1929, pp. 58, 71), paragraph 109, provides: “Under the police powers of this State, the business of conducting chain stores and/or a chain of stores, for the selling of any kind or merchandise, hereby is classified *431as a business tending to foster monoply; „ and there is hereby levied upon each and every such person, firm, or corporation, owning, operating, maintaining or controlling such a chain of stores, [a] consisting of more them five stores, the sum of $50.00 for each store, [b] ‘Chain of stores’ as used herein shall mean and…