Court Opinion

ID: 9584593
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:50:28.123142+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:09:15.152169
License: Public Domain

Duckworth, Chief Justice,
dissenting. I dissent from the judgment on the main bill for the reason that Code Ann. § 95-1704a (Ga. L. 1955, pp. 559, 562) authorizes highway authorities of the State, counties and municipalities to acquire private property for limited access facilities by condemnation “in the same manner as such governmental units are now or may hereafter be authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions [italics mine].” The mere fact that Ga. L. 1961, p. 517, et seq., prescribes a procedure for the exercise of eminent domain for State-aid public road purposes in addition to other authority conferred does not prohibit such method from being used for limited access facilities under Code Ann. § 95-1704a, supra, which is not in conflict with the latter act, and the Highway Department may use the latter method to acquire rights of way for such limited access highways by this new method of condemnation thereunder.
*304Since no part of the majority opinion and judgment on the main bill has for consideration the constitutional questions raised in the cross-bill of exceptions this dissent in no way takes into consideration such questions and is only a dissent from the majority opinion as written and the judgment of affirmance determined therefrom.
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Candler concurs in this dissent.