Legal Opinion
Walker v. Georgia Power Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 6, 1986No. 71497, 71498PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
On November 7,1975, Georgia Power Company filed a petition in the Superior Court of Monroe County seeking to condemn .0295 acre of land known as the Wright Family Cemetery, located within a larger tract of land it owned in fee simple on which it planned to construct a plant, and to relocate and reinter the bodies buried there “under the provisions and by the authority of’ OCGA § 36-60-6. Named as defendants were appellant Vivian Walker and thirty other known heirs at law of the persons buried therein. Because the cemetery might contain other gravesites then unknown and…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Heiligman v. ChambersSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1959
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