CITY OF ATLANTA v. SIG SAMUELS LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING

No. S07A1016.

652 S.E.2d 533 (2007)

CITY OF ATLANTA v. SIG SAMUELS LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 29, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Godfrey, Torrey Dennis Smith, Elizabeth Brannen Chandler, City of Atlanta Law Department, Atlanta, for appellant.

Michael Victor Coleman, Lord, Bissell & Brooks, LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.


MELTON, Justice.

The City of Atlanta ("City") appeals from an order of the Superior Court of Fulton County which required the City to, among other things, compensate Sig Samuels Laundry and Dry Cleaning ("Sig Samuels") for a purported taking of Sig Samuels' property in connection with the installation of a sidewalk on the City's own right-of-way. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

Sig Samuels is a laundry dry cleaning company located at the intersection...

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