Linder v. Ponder

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

That the State of Georgia can not be sued without its consent is not an open question. Roberts v. Barwick, 187 Ga. 691 (1 S. E. 2d, 713). Therefore, despite extended debate of counsel on this subject, we dispose of it with the simple statement that no attempt is here made to sue the State. However, the relief sought against Tom Linder is to prevent him from dealing with land which the petition shows belongs to the State. This petitioners can not do. To obtain a judgment decreeing title to the land in question to be in Grady County because it allegedly paid the…