DeKalb County v. Orwig

Birdsong, Judge.

At the trial of this case, the jury found appellant DeKalb County negligently failed to discover and remove an obstruction placed by a third party (Georgia Power) in its main sewer line after the obstruction caused 3,000 gallons of raw sewage, including excrement, to back up and flood cross-appellant Orwig’s home. The evidence admitted at this trial authorized a finding that despite a county department supervisor’s early opinion that the fault was in the county’s main line; and despite the abnormal quantity of raw sewage present, so deep in places that a county supervisor…