Johnson v. City of Atlanta

Querrían, Judge.

The plaintiff protests the correctness of the judgment dismissing the petition. He insists that the petition sets forth a right to recover for damages to his house and furnishings on the compatible theories: (a) that the damage to his house is compensable under the provisions of Art. I, Sec. Ill, Par. I of the State Constitution embodied in Code Ann. § 2-301 that “private property shall not be taken, or damaged, for public purposes, without just and adequate compensation being first paid”; (b) that the act of negligence of the city employees in applying the pressure to the…