City of Cartersville v. McGinnis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Fite. Bartow superior court. November 1, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
This is a petition by B. H. McGinnis and E. M. Goding against the City of Cartersville, to enjoin the enforcement of an ordinance requiring cotton and certain other bulky articles sold within the municipality to be weighed on the city scales. It was alleged that McGinnis was engaged in the business of buying and selling cotton under a municipal license, and that Goding was a weigher duly licensed by the ordinary in compliance with the Civil Code, (1910), § 1844 et seq., and engaged in the business of weighing cotton, and in the employment of his coplaintiff. The court temporarily restrained…
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