Case ID: ga-app_24/html/0640-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10746, 10773.
    Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Bibb Brick Company; and vice versa.
    
    Decided December 23, 1919.
    (Certiorari granted by the Supreme Court.)
    Appeal; from Bibb superior court—Judge Mathews. July 1, 1919.
    
      T. 8. Felder, B. C. Jordan, for plaintiff.
    
      John B. L. Smith, Grady G. Harris, for defendant.
   Smith, J.

1. “A party who is dissatisfied with the award in condemnation proceedings which have been instituted to assess the damages to private property taken for public use, and who desires to appeal from-the decision of the assessors to the superior court, is not required to give bond for the eventual condemnation money as in case of other appeals.” Alderman v. Valdosta &c. R. Co., 9 Ga. App. 526 (71 S. E. 931).

2. Where, in condemnation proceedings instituted to assess the damage to private property taken for public use, the condemnor desires to appeal from the decision of the assessors to the superior court, an appeal entered by the attorneys at law for the condemnor is good in law. Civil Code (1910), § 4955.

3. Under the above rulings the court erred in dismissing the appeal.

Judgment reversed on the main hill of exceptions, and affirmed on the. cross-hill.

Jenkins, P. J., and Stephens, J., concur.