17 S.E.2d 66 | Ga. | 1941
The petition assails an ordinance of the City of Gainesville which regulates the operation of barber-shops, fixing hours for opening and closing, and minimum prices to be charged for services. While extensive averments are made as to the injury which petitioners have sustained and will sustain as a result of the ordinance, the only specific acts upon the part of the municipality to enforce the provisions of the ordinance are that copies of charges have repeatedly been given petitioners, directing them to appear in the municipal court and stand trial under the penal provisions of the ordinance, and that petitioners have been told that additional criminal charges will be made for each violation of the ordinance. The only assignment of error is upon the judgment sustaining a general demurrer and dismissing the petition. Held, that the judgment is sustained by the general rule, that equity will neither aid nor interfere with criminal prosecutions. Code, § 55-102. The following decisions state and estate this rule, and further discussion of them as related to the instant case is not deemed necessary; Phillips v. Stone Mountain,
Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur, except Atkinson, P. J., who dissents.
