Swiney v. Dekalb County

Carlisle, Judge.

The petition in this case alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of land abutting on Old Shallowford Road in DeKalb County near where it crosses the north fork of Peachtree Creek; that the defendant county, on its own account, or the State Highway Department acting for and in conjunction with the county, relocated the road where it crosses Peachtree Creek, built a new bridge, or culvert, across the creek and graded and paved the road and approaches thereto; that as a part of the project of relocating and rebuilding the road and building the new bridge and culvert “the old…