Legal Opinion
Seckinger v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 11, 1957No. 19860PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Head, Justice.
In the present case the plaintiffs seek to preserve the status of described property under a zoning ordinance of the City of Atlanta approved December 22, 1954. The general law authorizing “Zoning and Planning in Municipalities” (Ga. L. 1946, p. 191) was made applicable to the City of Atlanta by an act approved February 15, 1952 (Ga. L. 1952, p. 2731). By section 1 of the 1946 act, municipalities are “empowered to make, adopt, promulgate, and from time to time, amend, extend, and add to” zoning regulations, and to divide the municipality “into districts of such number, shape,…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Reichelderfer v. QuinnSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Leahy v. Inspector of BuildingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Putney v. Abington TownshipSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
- Kuehne v. Town CouncilSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1950
- Marshall v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1943
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Douglas v. WagesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
- Norton Realty & Loan Co. v. City of GainesvilleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1968
- Dr. Ricardo Mestre v. City of AtlantaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
- Douglas v. WagesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
- Heilker v. Zoning Board of AppealsCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 2001
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