Department of Transportation v. Bridges

I fully concur in Divisions 2 and 3 but respectfully dissent as to Division 1. Since the decision in Tift County v. Smith, 219 Ga. 68 (131 SE2d 527) (1963), the law in Georgia has been that a landowner has a special property right which entitles him to access to a public road *23abutting his property, but that inconvenience of access to other roads and circuity of travel caused by the closure of one end of an abutting road, which closure is a short distance from the landowner’s property, does not violate any special right of the landowner. In this case, the Court holds that such a closure does…