Stewart v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Mandamus. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. December 13, 1912. The Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Fulton.
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Mandamus. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. December 13, 1912. The Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Fulton. County instituted three separate actions against A. P. Stewart,- tax-collector, J. R. Wilkinson, ordinary, and T. M. Armistead, tax-receiver, of Fulton County, seeking the writ of mandamus to compel each of them to file detailed statements of the number of assistants needed and the amounts necessary to be expended for deputies, assistants, bookkeepers, clerks, and other employees of his office for the year 1913, as provided in section 5 of the act of August 22, 1911…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) It is declared in art. 1, sec. 4, par. 1, of the constitution (Civil Code, § 6391), that “Laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the State, and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law.” A general law may be repealed or modified by another general law, but it can not be repealed or modified by a special or local law. If the act under consideration is a general law, it is valid as against the contention that it violates the section of the constitution above quoted. If…
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