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DOUGHERTY COUNTY v. BUSH

26190.

227 Ga. 137 (1971)

179 S.E.2d 343

DOUGHERTY COUNTY et al. v. BUSH et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 7, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perry, Walters, Langstaff, Lippitt & Campbell, Evans J. Plowden, Jr., H. H. Perry, Jr., for appellants.

Heard & Leverett, E. Freeman Leverett, for appellees.

GRICE, Justice.

The decisive question in this appeal is whether a statute authorizing creation of law libraries (Ga. L. 1970, p. 3367) and imposing a specified item of court costs to finance them is constitutional.

This question arose when Dougherty County, acting by and through the Board of Commissioners, filed suit in the superior court of that county against J. W. Bush, the clerk of that court and also Clerk of the City Court of Albany.

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