Rheberg v. Grady County
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Cairo — Judge Kigsby. April 11, 1921. L. H. Bheberg bro'ught suit for damages in the sum of $1,000 against Grady County, and his petition made the following case: Petitioner, in the year 1919, was the owner of a certain described tract of land in Grady County, which abutted upon the Dixie Highway, a public road in the county.
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Action for damages; from city court of Cairo — Judge Kigsby. April 11, 1921. L. H. Bheberg bro'ught suit for damages in the sum of $1,000 against Grady County, and his petition made the following case: Petitioner, in the year 1919, was the owner of a certain described tract of land in Grady County, which abutted upon the Dixie Highway, a public road in the county. In the month of November, 1919, the county was repairing and grading said public road, adjoining petitioner’s said land, with its chain-gang crew, organized, controlled, and operated by the proper officials of the county, to wit,…
1Opinion of the CourtBroyles, C. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) As authority for the preceding headnotes we cite Elbert County v. Brown, 16 Ga. App. 834 (86 S. E. 651), and the many pertinent decisions there referred to and exhaustively discussed by Chief Judge Russell. If the ruling in the instant case as to the liability of a county for the tortious acts of its servant in wrongfully appropriating or damaging private property, for the benefit of the public, goes further than any direct holding in those cases, we think the extension fully warranted by the spirit of those decisions and the broad legal principles upon…
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- Elbert County v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1915
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