DAVIS v. CITY OF ATLANTA

16998.

206 Ga. 652 (1950)

58 S.E.2d 140

DAVIS et al. v. CITY OF ATLANTA et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 14, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moise, Post & Gardner, for plaintiffs.

J. C. Savage, J. C. Murphy, J. M. B. Bloodworth, John E. Feagin, and Henry L. Bowden, for defendants.


DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

In rendering the judgment excepted to, Honorable Ralph Pharr, Judge of the Superior Court, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, wrote the following opinion:

"Under Board of Trustees v. City of Atlanta, 113 Ga. 883 (39 S. E. 394), the fact that privately owned property is devoted exclusively to a public use does not thereby make it public property so as to exempt it from municipal ad valorem taxation. Indeed, not even legislative...

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