Court Opinion

ID: 9579824
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:58:57.265493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:35:48.706136
License: Public Domain

Candler, Justice,
dissenting. I do not agree with the majority ruling in this case because I am of the opinion that the plaintiff's petition and the evidence show without dispute that the State-aid road here involved had not been completed and opened to travel when the cause declared on occurred. Completion of such a road and formally opening it to travel is a condition precedent to the right to bring and maintain an action resulting from an injury sustained thereon and both must be alleged and proved before there can be a recovery of damages resulting therefrom. See Code § 95-1712; Dougherty County v. Edge, 216 Ga. 100 (114 SE2d 862), and the several cases there cited which are controlling authority for the ruling made in that case.
I am authorized to1 state that Mr. Chief Justice Duckworth concurs in this dissent.