Case ID: ga_130/html/0747-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lines et al. v. Mayor and Alderman of Savannah et al.
    
    Argued January 10,
    Decided May 22, 1908.
    Petition for injunction. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. May 14, 1907.
    
      Robert L. Golding and Alex. A. Lawrence, for plaintiffs.
    
      Adams & Adams, for defendants.
   Atkinson, J.

The legal principles controlling this case are fully enunciated and discussed in City Council of Augusta v. Clark, 124 Ga. 254 (52 S. E. 881), and under the evidence submitted before the judge, there was no abuse of discretion in refusing to grant a temporary injunction as prayed.

2. On the question of whether a given occupation comes within a particular class of which a municipal occupation tax is required, evidence which tends to show the character of the business is admissible.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.