Case ID: ga_214/html/0733-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Duckworth, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

20292.
    STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT et al. v. HOOKS.
    Submitted January 12, 1959
    Decided February 6, 1959
    Rehearing denied March 6, 1959.
    
      Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Paul Miller, E. J. Summer-our, Lamar Murdaugh, Assistant Attorneys-General, Ariel V. Conlin, John E. Hogg, Deputy Assistant Attorneys-General, Pnce, Spivey & Carlton, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Rountree & Rountree, contra.
   Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The petition of Y. H. Hooks against the State Highway Department of Georgia, Emanuel County, Jerome Waller, W. L. Wilkes, and R. G. Foster & Company, alleges that the petitioner is the owner of certain described land; that the defendants have notified him of their intention to construct a highway thereon; and that, without having condemned his land or paid him for damages resulting therefrom, they have proceeded with the proposed construction, which will constitute a continuing trespass and the taking of petitioner’s property for public use without due process and adequate compensation; and he prays that they be enjoined from trespassing on his property as alleged. The petition alleges a cause of action and the court did not err in overruling the general demurrers of the defendants.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.