City of Colquitt v. Jeffords Oil Co.

Jeffords Oil Company broügbt its equitable petition against City of Colquitt, G. W. Cook, and A. F. Pierce, and prayed for injunction against tbe city and its officers, to restrain them from enforcing, by threatened prosecution and arrest of petitioner’s agents, an ordinance of the city fixing a business license, *606specific and occupation, tax, etc. This ordinance, so far as relevant, reads as follows: “Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Colquitt, Georgia, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of same, that the following license or specific tax shall be levied and…