Southern Crescent Newspapers, L.P. v. Dorsey

In my opinion, Dollar v. Wind, 135 Ga. 760 (70 SE 335) (1911) is controlling authority and mandates a reversal of the trial court’s order in this case. Therefore, I respectfully dissent to the majority’s affirmance of what I consider to be the erroneous failure of the trial court to issue the writ of mandamus in favor of Southern Crescent Newspapers (News/Era).

In Dollar this Court clearly held that when an act of the General Assembly imposing an additional condition for designation as an official organ comes into effect before the designating officials have made an actual change in the…