Legal Opinion

Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. City of Atlanta

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 22, 1916PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Equitable petition. Before Judge Bell. Fulton superior court. September 1, 1914.

1Per curiam

1. Where tlie property of a corporation is proceeded against as the property, of another corporation, for the enforcement of a street-improvement assessment against it, the real owners’ remedy is by injunction, for the reason that only the party named as defendant can file an affidavit of illegality. City of Atlanta v. Seaboard Air-Line Ry., 137 Ga. 805 (2), 806 (74 S. E. 268).

2. A description in a levy, to wit: “A certain city lot in the City of Atlanta, ward 9, land lot 13, in the 14th district of Pulton countv, *723Georgia, fronting 657 feet on tlie south side of Flat Shoals Avenue between…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
  2. Speer v. Mayor of AthensSupreme Court of Georgia · 1890
  3. Sayer v. BrownSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
  4. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Town of DecaturSupreme Court of Georgia · 1912
  5. Edalgo v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1907

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Rutledge v. City of EurekaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1925
  2. City of Valdosta v. HarrisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1923
  3. Town of Clayton v. Colorado &. S. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1931
  4. Williams v. General Finance Corp.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1958
  5. Spielberger v. Hall & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1925

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