Department of Transportation v. Hall

Beasley, Chief Judge.

The sole question brought by the Georgia Department of Transportation is whether its complaint for reformation of a deed was a compulsory counterclaim in another suit. The DOT filed the complaint after the court denied its motion to counterclaim and add parties. The court in the instant case held that the new complaint should have been brought as a counterclaim in the earlier suit and granted summary judgment to the Halls and Ropers.

The DOT obtained a right-of-way deed from the Ropers, predecessors in title to the Halls, for road widening. It paid the Ropers $26,400 for…