GEORGIA POWER COMPANY v. CITY OF CEDARTOWN

24114.

223 Ga. 453 (1967)

156 S.E.2d 51

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY v. CITY OF CEDARTOWN.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 22, 1967.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troutman, Sams, Schroder & Lockerman, William H. Schroder, Tench C. Coxe, Harold C. McKenzie, Jr., Milton A. Carlton, Jr., Rogers, Magruder & Hoyt, Jack Rogers, for appellant.

Glenn T. York, Jr., Matthews, Maddox, Walton & Smith, John W. Maddox, for appellee.


GRICE, Justice.

This is a suit by a municipality seeking a declaratory judgment that an electric power company's franchise to operate in the city is invalid for lack of authority of the city when it purported to grant such franchise. In its answer the power company, among other matters, asserted that the transaction whereby it had obtained the franchise was authorized by the city's charter and also had been recognized and ratified by specified Acts of the General...

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