Case Name: CARLISLE et al. v. WILSON et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1900-05-16
Citations: 110 Ga. 860
Docket Number: 
Parties: CARLISLE et al. v. WILSON et al.
Judges: All concurring, except Fish, J., absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 110
Pages: 860–861

Head Matter:
CARLISLE et al. v. WILSON et al.
A passage-way connecting a city lot with, a public street, although, originally laid out as a private way, became a public street by the continuous use thereof by the public as such for thirty years, and by having been kept in repair and free from obstructions by the municipal authorities. Consequently, the governing body of such municipality had jurisdiction to entertain a petition filed by an abutting property owner to have removed from across such a street a fence which obstructed the passage.
Argued April 30,
Decided May 16, 1900.
Certiorari. Before Judge Harris.' Troup superior court. November 21, 1899.
E. T. Moon and J. H. Cotter, for plaintiffs in error.
Frank Harwell, contra.

Opinion:
Cobb, J.
Complaint was made to the city authorities of LaGrange that certain persons had caused an obstruction to be placed in one of its public streets; and after a hearing the mayor and council decided that the way obstructed was a public street of the city, declared the obstruction a nuisance, and ordered the same abated. The casé was carried by certiorari to the superior court,'where the judgment of the mayor and council was affirmed. To this judgment the respondents in the proceeding before the mayor and council excepted.
The evidence, though conflicting, authorized a finding that •the way in question, although in all probability originally laid out as a private way, had become by continuous user for a number of years dedicated to the public, and that the city authorities had from time to time, by having repairs made and removing obstructions, recognized the same as one of the streets of the city. Such being the case, the mayor and council had un doubted jurisdiction to entertain an application to abate a nuisance caused by the obstruction of the street.
The judge did not err in overruling the certiorari.
Judgment affirmed.
All concurring, except Fish, J., absent.