114 Ga. 426 | Ga. | 1901
Johnson, the plaintiff in error, was tried in the recorder’s court of the City of Macon for a- violation of license ordinances of that city, and was convicted. He carried the case by certiorari to the superior court, where the certiorari was overruled; whereupon he excepted and brought the case to this court. It appears from the record that Johnson, on the first day of January, 1901, and at the time he was tried, was engaged, in the City of Macon, in carrying on the business of a coal-merchant; that in this business he used two two-horse wagons and one one-horse wagon for the purpose of delivering coal to his customers, and that these wagons were not used for any other purpose; that he charged his customers fifty cents per ton extra for coal where he delivered it, but as an item of expense in his business he estimated that it cost him one dollar per ton to deliver coal, and that he, therefore, derived no income whatever from the use of these wagons, save only as their use may have tended to increase his sales. He had paid to the city thirty-five dollars as “ an annual business or privilege
There was no error in overruling the certiorari.
Judgment affirmed.