Save the Bay Committee, Inc. v. Mayor of Savannah

Hawes, Justice.

This case was originally carried to the Court of Appeals and by that court transferred to this court on the theory that the case was one involving equity and title to land. A part of the area rezoned and upon which the defendant-developers propose to erect the apartment complex includes an area lying along the margin of rear wharf lots, 7, 8 and 9 west of Bull Street and known today and for more than 100 years as "Factors’ Walk.” Appellants contend that Factors’ Walk in the area here in dispute includes an area originally laid out by the founders of the Town of Savannah as a…