Legal Opinion
Dunlap v. Tift
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 13, 1952No. 17829PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson, Presiding Justice.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The amendment to the charter of the City of Macon {Ga. L. 1927, pp. 1283, 1324, section 72) provides: “The mayor and council shall have full power and authority to regulate, widen, change, lay out, close, vacate, direct and control the streets and alleys of the city,” etc.
Counsel for the plaintiffs in error insist that under this charter power the municipality may abandon any street whenever in its discretion such action seems to be in the public interest, and that the trial court is without power to inquire into the reasons…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Mayor of Macon v. FranklinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1852
- Marietta Chair Co. v. HendersonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
- City of Albany v. LippittSupreme Court of Georgia · 1941
- Brown v. City of East PointSupreme Court of Georgia · 1918
- Donalson v. Georgia Power & Light Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1932
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Unified Government of Athens-Clarke Co. v. Stiles Apartments, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2014
- McIntosh County v. FisherSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
- Griffith v. C & E Builders, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1973
- State Highway Department v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Georgia · 1966
- Stein v. MaddoxSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
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