Case Name: Cottle v. Wilkes, solicitor-general
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1914-03-11
Citations: 141 Ga. 499
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cottle v. Wilkes, solicitor-general.
Judges: All the Justices' concur, except AtTcmson, J., dissenting.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 499–500

Head Matter:
Cottle v. Wilkes, solicitor-general.
March 11, 1914.
Injunction. Before Judge Thomas. Tift superior court. September 25, 1913.
The alleged nuisance against which injunction was sought consisted in putting the public roads and bridges to the extraordinary-use of hauling over them large sawmill logs on two-wheeled carts, whereby the roads were being cut into ditches and gullies and the bridges broken, necessitating frequent repairs. The defendant denied that his hauling was the cause of the condition of the roads, and that Ms carts had broken the bridges except on one or two occasions when a guard-rail had been knocked from its position. He set up that the bad condition of the roads and bridges was due to the failure of the county authorities to do their legal duty. There was conflicting testimony at the hearing.

Opinion:
Hill, J.
The evidence in this ease being sufficient to authorize the judge to find that the act complained of was a public nuisance on the public highway, he did not abuse his discretion in granting an interlocutory injunction.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices' concur, except AtTcmson, J., dissenting.
' Smith & Griggs, for plaintiff in error.
J. S. Bidgill and 8. F. Mitchell, contra.