Legal Opinion
Long v. City of Athens
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided January 16, 2009No. 2070848PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Judge.
Jesse Earl Long, Jr., and Bettye Long appeal from a summary judgment entered by the Limestone Circuit Court in favor of the City of Athens (“the City”) on their claims of negligence, trespass, nuisance, and inverse condemnation, based on the City’s alleged flooding of their property.
Facts
In 1957, the Longs purchased approximately 31.5 acres of unimproved property in Athens (“the Long property”) that is located on the north side of Brown’s Ferry Road and is also bound by Lucas Ferry Road on the west and Highway 72 to the north. According to Bettye Long’s deposition testimony,…
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