City of Atlanta v. First National Bank of Atlanta

Undercofler, Chief Justice.

Certiorari was granted to review the decision of the Court of Appeals affirming the superior court’s affirmance of the special master’s order that disallowed condemnation of a parcel of land by the City of Atlanta on the ground that the city was “ ‘making an effort to take more land than is reasonably necessary for the accomplishment of the public purpose and that the reasons given for abandoning the previously acquired property in favor of the condemnation of the subject property are arbitrary, capricious and indicative of bad faith.’ ” City of Atlanta v. First…