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DORSEY v. CITY OF ATLANTA

21179.

216 Ga. 778 (1961)

119 S.E.2d 553

DORSEY et al. v. CITY OF ATLANTA.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 6, 1961.

Rehearing Denied April 20, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Bird, Williams & Howell, Arthur Howell, Cam D. Dorey, Jr., Scott Hogg, for plaintiff in error.

Newell Edenfield, J. C. Savage, contra.

QUILLIAN, Justice.

Unquestionably, the legislature possesses the authority to confer upon a municipality the right to provide public streets and to compel the owners of realty fronting thereon to pay the costs of these improvements. Hayden v. City of Atlanta, 70 Ga. 817. But this power is not absolute, and one of the limitations is the guarantee of equal protection of the laws as embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United

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