Legal Opinion
Cooper v. City of Gainesville
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 30, 1981No. 37755PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Justice.
The plaintiffs are residents, taxpayers, and property owners in unincorporated Hall County. They filed this complaint in the Hall Superior Court, seeking to have declared invalid and void two annexation ordinances enacted by the City of Gainesville.
The case was decided by the superior court under the following stipulation of facts: The subject properties are tracts and rights-of-way annexed by the City of Gainesville in Municipal Ordinances Numbers 79-22 and 79-24, which were enacted on July 17, 1979. The annexed property was adjacent to the then-existing corporate limits of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Plantation Pipe Line Co. v. City of BremenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1970
- City of Gainesville v. Hall County Board of EducationSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
- Paulding County v. City of HiramSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
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