Case Name: HENDRIX v. STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1959-09-24
Citations: 100 Ga. App. 417
Docket Number: 37781
Parties: HENDRIX v. STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Judges: Gardner, P.J., Townsend, Carlisle and Quillian, JJ., concur. Felton, C.J., dissents.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 100
Pages: 417–422

Head Matter:
37781.
HENDRIX v. STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Decided September 24, 1959
Rehearing deniedOctober 16, 1959.
Robert Edward Swrles, for plaintiff in error.
Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Paul Miller, E. J. Summer-our, Assistant Attomeys-General, F. H. Boney, contra.

Opinion:
Nichols, Judge.
1. Tender to the condemnee of the assessors' award of compensation for the property sought to be condemned, or payment of it into the registry of the court on his refusal to accept it, was a condition precedent to the condemnor's right to file and prosecute an appeal to a jury in the superior court. Woodside v. City of Atlanta, 214 Ga. 75 (103 S. E. 2d 108); State Highway Dept. v. Wilson, 98 Ga. App. 619 (106 S. E. 2d 544).
2. Where, as under the uncontradicted evidence in the present case, the condemnor attempted to file an appeal from the assessors' award to a jury in Chattooga Superior Court, without first tendering the amount of the assessors' award to the condemnee, the trial court erred in failing to dismiss the condemnor's appeal on motion of the condemnee, and such judgment must be reversed.
Judgment reversed.
Gardner, P.J., Townsend, Carlisle and Quillian, JJ., concur. Felton, C.J., dissents.