City of Gainesville v. Hall County Board of Education

The majority opinion construes the 1969 Amendment to Code Ann. § 69-902 (Ga. L. 1969, p. 504) to mean that the intent of the General Assembly was to allow a municipality to annex pockets of territory miles away from its boundaries by the ruse of following the path of a public street, road, highway, or right-of-way. I dissent. The purpose of this amendment was to change an interpretation of the Code section by this court in City *82of Adel v. Georgia Power Co., 224 Ga. 232 (161 SE2d 297) and thereby "render unnecessary for the annexation application the signatures of 'the owners of any public…