2 Ga. App. 740 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1907
(After stating the facts.)
We have no disposition to take issue with the unbroken current of authority which says that dogs are under the special watch and ward of the police power. Take our canine citizenship out from under the dominion of the police power, and every municipality which finds itself in the throes of a mad-dog scare will be exposed to the chagrin of seeing its ordinances, hastily drawn to meet the emergency, resisted by defenses and assailed by injunctions predi
If in the discussion we have been led away from wonted judicial serenity and seriousness, our apology is that the strenuousness with which the collection of this fine of one dollar and costs has been resisted, and with which that resistance has been resisted; the vehemence of language in the pleadings; the volume of matter in the briefs; the earnestness with which all these questions have been presented (and we must confess that the young men have argued the matter with consummate skill and ability), when brought into contrast with the actual subject-matter of the controversy, present a phase of humor that has tempted us-aside.
Judgment reversed.