City Council of Augusta v. Garrison

1. Independently of the question whether a municipality has the right by ordinance to require of one using an automobile on its city streets, in making delivery of goods purchased at his place of business, the payment of a “tax” or license fee for such use of its streets and the execution to it of a bond with surety thereon for the benefit of any one injured by the licensee’s negligent use of the said automobile, a municipal ordinance being without extraterritorial operation (2 McQuillin on Municipal Corporations, 723, § 693; Taylor v. Americus, 39 Ga. 59), such a bond does not apply to…