Case Name: GRAVITT et al. v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1991-07-10
Citations: 261 Ga. 426
Docket Number: S91A1244
Parties: GRAVITT et al. v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 261
Pages: 426–426

Head Matter:
S91A1244.
GRAVITT et al. v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
(407 SE2d 760)
Decided July 10, 1991.
Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Emmet J. Bondurant II, P. Richard Game, for appellants.
McVay & Stubbs, Robert S. Stubbs III, J. Richard Neville, for appellee.

Opinion:
Weltner, Justice.
This case is controlled by the holding in Columbus, Ga. v. Bd. of Water Commrs., 261 Ga. 219 (403 SE2d 791) (1991).
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.
In that case we cited Hawkins v. The Intendant of Jonesboro, 63 Ga. 527 (1879), which held:
[W]hen a statute confers the appointing power, and does not expressly authorize self-appointment, the appointment of some one other than self is always contemplated. The creator is not to be his own creature. . It cannot be sound that an officer having, or sharing, the power of appointment to another office, can, on general principles, become the incumbent of the latter, either de jure or de facto. [Id. at 529.]