Court Opinion

ID: 9845810
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:28:36.111132+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:22.275849
License: Public Domain

Duckworth, Chief Justice,
dissenting. The charter plainly empowers the city to abandon streets and alleys. This record unmistakably shows that the city did so abandon the alley here involved by resolution of its governing body. There is no indication that thereafter the city did anything with reference thereto to improve, keep open, or otherwise retain the abandoned alley. Therefore, the city was clearly within its lawful rights, and the petition, showing such facts, should have been dismissed on demurrer. For the same reason the interlocutory judgment *211is erroneous. Harbuck v. Richland Box Co., 207 Ga. 537, supra. I am authorized to say that Mr. Justice Hawkins concurs in this dissent.