Case Name: Allen et al. v. Lytle et al., commissioners
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1901-12-10
Citations: 114 Ga. 275
Docket Number: 
Parties: Allen et al. v. Lytle et al., commissioners.
Judges: All the Justices concurring.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 275–275

Head Matter:
Allen et al. v. Lytle et al., commissioners.
Argued October 22,
Decided December 10, 1901.
Petition for injunction. Before Judge Spence. Decatur superior court. October 2, 1901.
A. H. & R. B. Russell, for plaintiffs.
Hawes & Hawes and Sig. Nussbaum, contra.

Opinion:
Simmons, C. J.
1. The act of 1824 (Dawson's Comp. 459) did not confine the site of the public buildings of Decatur county to the precise areas of ground upon which they were erected, but fixed the location of the county-site at a place which the General Assembly designated as " Bainbridge," and it was evidently the -legislative intention to thus refer to a particular locality embracing what was regarded as a village or town the territory of which as a whole included those buildings.
2. The county authorities have power, when in their judgment the court-house and jail belonging to the county become unfit or unsuitable for the purposes for which erected, to build others upon different locations within the limits prescribed for the county-site.
3. Under the facts disclosed by the record, the judge did not err in refusing the
injunction.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concurring.