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Lehon v. City of Atlanta, 242 U.S. 53 (1916)
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Lehon v. City of Atlanta, 242 U.S. 53 (1916)
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Lehon v. City of Atlanta No. 10 Submitted November 14, 1916 Decided December 4, 1916 242 U.S. 53
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS
OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
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Ordinances of a city which subject the business of private detectives and detective agencies to police supervision, and provide that no person shall engage in such business without first obtaining recommendation by the Board of Police Commissioners, taking the oath prescribed for city detectives, and giving a bond in the sum of $1,000 to secure proper conduct, do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. A contention to the contrary is not, however, frivolous.
A state, under her police power, may supervise and regulate the police business within her limits and all that pertains to it, and this as regards the citizens of other states as well as her own.
Even though the ordinances were construed by local officials, in other cases, as excluding nonresidents from the detective business in Georgia, one who made no application to comply with them and thus failed to obtain a construction of them in his own case is not entitled to raise in this Court the question whether they discriminate against him as a citizen of another state. Gundling v. Chicago, 177 U.S. 183.
16 Ga.App. 64 affirmed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Lehon v. City of Atlanta, 242 U.S. 53 (1916) in 242 U.S. 53 242 U.S. 54. Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ANW7FAWQZY77GAT.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Lehon v. City of Atlanta, 242 U.S. 53 (1916), in 242 U.S. 53, page 242 U.S. 54. Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ANW7FAWQZY77GAT.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Lehon v. City of Atlanta, 242 U.S. 53 (1916). cited in 1916, 242 U.S. 53, pp.242 U.S. 54. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ANW7FAWQZY77GAT.
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