Jacks v. City of Atlanta

Mikell, Judge.

Lindsey Jacks appeals from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment to the City of Atlanta on his claim for payment in connection with subcontract work done on a city park in the wake of an explosion there. Jacks also appeals from the trial court’s ruling that the City did not have to obtain a payment bond from its general contractor because an emergency existed. We hold that Jacks’s claim against the City did not accrue until after the City paid Jacks’s contractor and that the City did not establish that it treated the event as an emergency. We therefore reverse.

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