Georgia Power Co. v. Harrison

Bell, Justice.

This suit concerns land located on the shore of Lake Sinclair. In 1952 appellee Harrison’s predecessor in title conveyed to Georgia Power Co., the appellant, fee simple title to land “on and below a contour line having an elevation of 340 feet above sea level, U.S.G.S. Datum,” as well as an easement in Harrison’s predecessor’s lot “between a contour line having an elevation of 340 feet above sea level and a contour line having an elevation of 350 feet above sea level . . . .” Harrison bought the lot in 1982, and shortly thereafter Georgia Power’s employees discovered a new…