Hurt v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. July term, 1896.
1Opinion of the Court
.Lumpkin; Presiding Justice.
This was an action brought by Mrs. Hurt in 1893 against the City of Atlanta, by which she sought to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned to certain realty owned by her, consisting of a lot with a three-story brick store thereon fronting on Forsyth street. The nature of the case will be readily apprehended from the following condensed statennent of the facts.
The city in 1892 had, under express legislative authority, caused to be constructed longitudinally in this street a ' bridge which spanned a number of railway tracks. The width ■of the bridge…
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