Legal Opinion
Wright v. Department of Natural Resources
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 26, 2002No. A01A2309PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Presiding Judge.
This appeal arises out of the trial court’s order granting summary judgment to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in a lawsuit filed by Winston Wright, in which Wright claimed that DNR’s actions constituted a taking of his alligators. The trial court granted summary judgment on a number of grounds. We find at least three of these grounds to be proper bases for granting summary judgment, and we therefore affirm.
Wright owns and operates a farm in south Georgia. In 1963, he fenced in a portion of the 30- to 40-acre pond on the farm, in which an indeterminate…
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