Legal Opinion
Sears v. State of Ga.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 16, 1974No. 28983PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
At issue in this appeal is the validity of $28,000,000 in State of Georgia General Obligation Bonds to be dated April 1, 1974, of which $12,000,000 was designated to finance land and buildings for the University System of Georgia and $16,000,000 to finance public roads and bridges. In reaching this issue, we necessarily adjudicate the constitutionality of a new system of state financing through general obligation bonds, which underlies the specific bond issue involved in this case.
General obligation bonds were first authorized as a method by which the state could incur debt by…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Welborne v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902
- Hammond v. ClarkSupreme Court of Georgia · 1911
- Plumb v. ChristieSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
- Plantation Pipe Line Co. v. City of BremenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1970
- McLennan v. AldredgeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1968
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3Cited by38 opinions
- Donaldson v. Department of TransportationSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Goldrush II v. City of MariettaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
- Georgia Power Co. v. Allied Chemical Corp.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- JIG Real Estate, LLC v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2011
- Bryan v. Georgia Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
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