Georgia Power Co. v. Moore

1. Under section 4458 of the Civil Code (1910), the alienee of property causing a nuisance “is responsible for a continuance of the same,” but in such a ease “there must be a request to abate before action is brought.” Thus, while an action will lie without such notice against one who erects and maintains a nuisance, notice is a prerequisite against one who merely acquires property on which there is an existing nuisance, passively permit? *412its continuance, and adds nothing thereto. So. Ry. Co. v. Cook, 106 Ga. 450 (4), 453 (32 S. E. 585); Blackstock v. So. Ry. Co., 120 Ga. 414 (47 S. E. 902);…