Black v. City of Cordele

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Church’s Fried Chicken, Inc., acquired a lot adjacent to Turton’s Shopping Center in Cordele, Georgia. A concrete block retaining wall separated the two properties and a natural gas pipeline ran diagonally across Church’s property from an old service station located on the property to the retaining wall, under the wall, and then parallel to it at the back of the shopping center. At the wall, the pipeline on Church’s property was connected to the parallel section by a compression coupling. Church’s employed Southeastern Porcelain and Construction Company, Inc., to…