Case Name: Ballard v. Jones et al., commissioners
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1918-11-14
Citations: 148 Ga. 513
Docket Number: No. 802
Parties: Ballard v. Jones et al., commissioners.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 148
Pages: 513–513

Head Matter:
Ballard v. Jones et al., commissioners.
No. 802.
November 14, 1918.
Petition for injunction. Before Judge Smith. Campbell superior court. December 1, 1917.
W. C. Wright, for plaintiff. Claude C. Smith, for defendants.

Opinion:
Eish, C. J.
1. In an application for a new public road, a landowner whose land is sought to be taken may, in response to the notice served on him as provided in the Civil Code, § 641, urge before the ordinary (or county commissioners, a's the case may be) any legal objection to establishing the public road, and the judgment of the ordinary (or commissioners) is reviewable by certiorari. •,
2. As the landowner's remedy at law was ample, it was not error to refuse to enjoin the county commissioners from continuing a proceeding to establish a public road pursuant to the Civil Code, § 640-642, in advance of the hearing provided for in § 641. Atlanta & West Point Railroad Co. v. Redwine, 123 Ga. 736 (51 S. E. 724).
3. Applying the law as above noted to the facts of the present case, the court did not err in refusing to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining the county commissioners from continuing a proceeding to establish the public road.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.