Hicks v. City of Atlanta

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs brought an action seeking to recover from the City of Atlanta for its negligence in allowing excessive water pressure to damage the property of the plaintiffs. The City of Atlanta answered, denying the material allegations of the complaint and by amendment asserted that the plaintiffs had failed to comply with Code Ann. § 69-308 (Code § 69-308, as amended through Ga. L. 1956, pp. 183, 184) regarding ante litem notice. The defendant City of Atlanta contended that “notice was not addressed to the governing authority of the municipality.”

The case came on for…