Groves v. City of Atlanta

Smith, Judge.

These four appeals arise from separate actions filed by Barbara Groves, Mary Brown, Juanita Ridenhour, and Hugh Pylant against the City of Atlanta, John D. Stephens, Inc., and others, seeking injunctive relief and damages for trespass on their land. The trial court granted Stephens’s motion for summary judgment; it also granted the City of Atlanta’s motion for partial summary judgment as to two issues and its motion to dismiss the claim for punitive damages. The appeals have been consolidated for review.. The record reveals that the plaintiffs are all owners of parcels of vacant…