City of Atlanta v. Dinkins

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The city contends that the petition did not set forth a cause of action against it on which the plaintiffs could recover. It relies on the case of Ward v. Georgia Terminal Co., 143 Ga. 80 (84 S. E. 374), in which it was held that “The alteration and change of grade of a portion of a street in a city, permitted and sanctioned by lawful authority, whereby the value of land abutting on another part of the street, beyond a cross street, is lessened, is not a ground of action, where the landowner has the same communication to other parts of the city through…