Legal Opinion
McElmurray v. Augusta-Richmond County
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 11, 2005No. A05A0262PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Phipps, Judge.
Through their family corporation, the McElmurrays own and operate a dairy and crop farming business in Richmond County. In February 2001, they brought this suit against Augusta-Richmond County, successor by consolidation to the City of Augusta, complaining that from 1979 until 1990 they had permitted the city to use their farm land as a disposal site for sewage sludge generated at the city’s Messerly wastewater treatment plant based on misrepresentations by the city that the sludge constituted a safe and beneficial fertilizer. The McElmurrays claim that the sludge contained…
2Cases cited39 opinions
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- Gilbert v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Donaldson v. Department of TransportationSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Woodard v. Laurens CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1995
- Anderson v. FlakeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
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3Cited by13 opinions
- McElmurray v. CONSOLIDATED GOV'T, AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTYCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2007
- Walker County v. Tri-State CrematoryCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
- Williams v. Whitfield CountyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
- Hewell v. Walton CountyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
- Daniel v. Amicalola Electric Membership Corp.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2011
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