Legal Opinion
DeKalb County v. Atlanta Gas Light Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 6, 1972No. 26815, 26816, 26817PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mobley, Presiding Justice.
DeKalb County, the Chairman and Members of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, and other officials of the county appeal from the judgments in cases brought by Atlanta Gas Light Company, Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, and Georgia Power Company, in which the trial judge declared an ordinance of the county, enacted February 9, 1971, tó be null and void, and granted interlocutory injunction against the enforcement of the ordinance.
The ordinance requires all telephone, telegraph, gas, and electric companies doing business in the unincorporated…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Albany Bottling Co. v. WatsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
- Beazley v. DeKalb CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1953
- Town of Decatur v. DeKalb CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1908
- Richmond County Business Ass'n v. Richmond CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1968
- Gay v. Laurens CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1957
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Lindsey v. GuhlSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
- Mobley v. Polk CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
- DeKalb County v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.District Court, N.D. Georgia · 1972
- Smith v. AbercrombieSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Stephenson v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
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