Court Opinion

ID: 9581975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:20:58.291412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:22.106599
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Hall, Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in the judgment only. In my opinion the time is long past for this court to re-examine its opinion in Town of Ft. Oglethorpe v. Phillips, 224 Ga. 834 (165 SE2d 141) (1968) on the question of what is a nuisance with respect to municipal liability. As a respected authority on this subject has noted: "Ignoring the controversy below on the correct approach to defining a nuisance, the court emphasized the allegations of actual knowledge of the defective light by the governing authorities for more than two weeks, their knowledge of six collisions on the day the plaintiff was injured, and their continued operation of the *428light. These allegations 'set forth the operation and maintenance of a defective condition that could work damage to anyone who came in proximity to it,’ and thus the maintenance of a nuisance. At the least, therefore, the Supreme Court’s conclusion in Town of Fort Oglethorpe v. Phillips appears to open a Pandora’s box for the nuisance concept in municipal liability.” Sentell, Local Government Law, 21 Mercer L. R. 183, 195 (1970).