Legal Opinion
City of Atlanta v. Broadnax
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided April 26, 2007No. A07A0277, A07A0278PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Phipps, Judge.
A severe rainstorm on September 21, 2002, resulted in the flooding of streets and homes in an area of southwest Atlanta known as the Booker T. Washington High School (WHS) neighborhood. As a result of the damage caused by the flooding, Brenda Broadnax and other owners of homes in that neighborhood brought this consolidated suit against the City of Atlanta. They charge the city with maintenance of a nuisance resulting from recurrent flooding of the WHS neighborhood through the years due to overflow from the city’s combined system for the drainage of sewer water and storm water…
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