City of Atlanta v. Hudgins

Dúckworth, Justice.

In 1882 this court, in Collins v. Macon, 69 Ga. 542, held that for failure to perforin legislative or judicial acts a municipal corporation is not liable; but that for ministerial acts the rule is different, and that damages may be recovered either from the neglect to perform them, or from performing them in an unskillful, .negligent, or improper manner. The rule announced in that case is now codified as section 69-301. The Code, § 3-106, declares that “no demand shall be necessary to the commencement of an action, except in such cases as the law or the contract…