Department of Transportation v. Knight

Hall, Justice.

The single substantive issue for decision on this interlocutory appeal is quite similar to the issue we recently decided in Sadtler v. City of Atlanta, 236 Ga. 396 (223 SE2d 819) (1976). We must decide here whether the Department of Transportation as the successor to the State Highway Department owns certain land purchased by that department for Georgia Interstate Highway 1-485 in fee simple, or whether because it has now been determined that 1-485 will not be built, title to the land has reverted to the former owners. Thus, the only distinction between Sadtler and this case is…