Hardin v. State Highway Board

Grice, Justice.

In view of the facts appearing in .the record, we construe, as counsel in their brief seem to have done, the words “unlawful appropriation,” in the question of the Court of Appeals, as the damaging of private property, although the same need not be actually taken. We likewise, for the same reason, construe the word “unlawful” as the equivalent of “without just or adequate compensation being first paid.”

In Taylor v. Richmond County, ante, 610, a ruling handed down since the questions in the instant case were propounded, we dealt with the proposition involving the right of a…