Case ID: ga_273/html/0408-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sears, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S00A2058.
    ATILANO v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.
    (541 SE2d 385)
    Decided February 5, 2001.
    
      Paul W. David, for appellant.
    
      Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, William J. Keogh III, Fletcher, Harley & Fletcher, William L. Fletcher, Leonard O. Fletcher, Jr., Burnside, Wall, Daniel, Ellison & Resell, Harry D. Resell, for appellee.
   Sears, Justice.

This appeal stems from the trial court’s decision permitting the relocation of a private, abandoned cemetery. Because the record shows that the trial court properly considered the factors specified in OCGA § 36-72-8, and because the record supports the trial court’s finding that the interest of Columbia County in relocating the cemetery outweighs any and all competing interests in leaving the cemetery undisturbed, we hereby affirm the decision of the trial court.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur. 
      
       See OCGA § 36-72-14 (a).
     
      
       Of nine known descendants, the appellant is the only one who opposes the trial court’s ruling.
     
      
       See Hughes v. Cobb County, 264 Ga. 128, 130-131 (441 SE2d 406) (1994).