Dougherty County v. Hamilton

Almand, Justice.

Curtis L. Hamilton and Evelyn W. Hamilton filed their suit in the City Court of Albany against Dougherty County, seeking to recover damages for the value of a strip of land 100 feet wide and running entirely across the east side of a 5-acre tract in Dougherty County, which they owned at the time the defendant allegedly took possession of said land without any offer of payment to the plaintiff or without any effort to condemn the same as provided by law for highway road purposes. It was further alleged that payment of the value of the property had been demanded and refused, and…