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SUMBRY v. LAND

47316.

127 Ga. App. 786 (1972)

195 S.E.2d 228

SUMBRY et al. v. LAND.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 15, 1972.

Rehearing Denied December 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Harper, Jr., Magie Pitts Hames, Melvin L. Wulf, Sanford Jay Rosen, William J. Birtles, for appellants.

E. H. Polleys, Jr., for appellee.

CLARK, Judge.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." Those words which Charles Dickens used to open his novel, A Tale of Two Cities, apply appropriately to Columbus, Georgia, in the summer of 1971. The optimistic phrase refers to the hopeful outlook created for that community by consolidation of the governments of the City of Columbus and County of Muscogee so that a new body politic, known as "Columbus, Georgia," came into existence on January...

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