Tanner v. Brasher
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Justice.
Appellees, Bill Brasher and Norman Kittles, filed suit as representatives of a class of Sapelo Island landowners to enjoin certain state officials from interfering with their access to property that they claimed on the northern end of the island. They also sought damages from the officials. Appellants, the officials, filed a motion to dismiss, which the trial court treated as a motion for summary judgment. They subsequently appealed from the denial of the motion and the trial court’s certification of the class. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
In 1969, Annemarie Reynolds…
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