Calvary Independent Baptist Church v. City of Rome

208 Ga. 312 (1951)

66 S.E.2d 726

CALVARY INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH

v.

CITY OF ROME.

17537.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Submitted July 9, 1951.

Decided September 10, 1951.

Maddox & Maddox, for plaintiff.

Parker, Clary & Kent, for defendant.

CANDLER, Justice.

Calvary Independent Baptist Church, a corporation, filed a suit under the provisions of our declaratory-judgment statute against the City of Rome. Its petition in substance alleges: The plaintiff, in 1937, purchased certain realty in Rome, Georgia, located at what was then the intersection of West Seventh Street and Avenue "C" and fronting on them 143…