Legal Opinion
Thompson v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 6, 1946No. 15480PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Duckworth, Justice.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) There appears in the Constitution of 1945 (article 1, section 3, paragraph 3) the following provision: “All exemptions from taxation heretofore granted in corporate charters are declared to be henceforth null and void.” There are two specific and inescapable legal reasons why the provision of the new Constitution just quoted does not and can not alter or affect the existing rights of the Atlantic Coast Line Eailroad Company involved in this case. The first of these solid legal reasons is that the quoted provision does not purport to be…
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