DeLong v. Kent

The plaintiff sought to abate the alleged nuisance under the • provisions of Code § 72-401. The original statutory provision for the abatement of nuisances in Georgia was contained in the Penal Code of 1833, Tenth Division, Section XXIV (Ga. L. 1833, p. 188; Cobb, p. 817), and that one section covered the abatement of nuisances in the towns and cities as well as the unincorporated areas of the counties; two or more justices of the peace were clothed with jurisdiction of nuisances in the unincorporated areas of the county, and this jurisdiction is extant today under the provisions of Code §…