Barber v. Housing Authority of Rome

Jenkins, Justice.

Dealing first with the grounds of constitutional attack on the State housing laws under which the defendant, Housing Authority of the City of Rome, Georgia, has functioned — the “housing-authority law” of 1937 (Ga. L. 1937, p. 210), ancl the act of 1939 amending this law (Ga. L. 1939, p. 112), this court, in Williamson v. Housing Authority of Augusta, 186 Ga. 673 (2, 3, 7), 677, 678, 688, 694 (supra) has held that the original act of 1937, which conferred upon each authority the power of eminent domain, is not in contravention of art. 3, sec. 7, par. 8, of the State…