Board of Trustees v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for injunction. Before Judge Fite. Fulton superior court. April 4, 1901. This was a petition to restrain tbe enforcement of an execution-for city taxes for -tbe year 1900' on realty in Atlanta owned by the Gate City Guard and used by the owner for an armory.
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Petition for injunction. Before Judge Fite. Fulton superior court. April 4, 1901. This was a petition to restrain tbe enforcement of an execution-for city taxes for -tbe year 1900' on realty in Atlanta owned by the Gate City Guard and used by the owner for an armory. The city denied that the property was exempt from taxation, and alleged that, although the upper part of the armory building was used principally for the purpose above stated, the first floor of the building' was used wholly for purposes of income, being rented for storerooms, and that the part used for an armory was sometimes…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
On October 13, 1885, an act was approved which declared: “Each armory owned and occupied by any command of' said volunteer forces shall be, to all intents and purposes, public property — that is to say, the State shall have the right to use the same for public purposes of a military character, to quarter troops therein in times of emergency, to be judged of by the commander-in-chief, and to otherwise use the same for military purposes, such use, however, to be consistent with the occupation of the same by said command holding the legal title thereto, and so as not to oust the said command…
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