City of Marietta v. Summerour

302 Ga. 645

FINAL COPY S17G0057. CITY OF MARIETTA v. SUMMEROUR. BLACKWELL, Justice. This case concerns a small grocery store on Allgood Road in Marietta and, more particularly, the parcel of land on which that store sits. Ray Summerour has owned the land for nearly three decades. The City of Marietta wants to acquire the land for the purpose of building a public park. When the City was unable to negotiate a voluntary sale of the parcel, it resolved to take the land by eminent domain, and it filed a petition in the Superior Court of Cobb County to condemn the property. Following an evidentiary…