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CENTRAL OF GA. R. CO. v. COLLINS

28968.

232 Ga. 790 (1974)

209 S.E.2d 1

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY et al. v. COLLINS et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 6, 1974.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hall & Bloch, Ellsworth Hall, Jr., Miller, Beckmann & Simpson, Lamar W. Davis, Jr., John B. Miller, for appellants.

Reginald C. Haupt, Jr., for appellees.

HALL, Justice.

This is an appeal in a nuisance case by the Central of Georgia Railroad Company ("the railroad") and Savannah Foods & Industries, Inc. ("the sugar company"), defendants below, from a jury verdict for plaintiffs, who are homeowners alleging injury from the noise of a railroad car weighing operation, conducted since 1966 on tracks immediately behind their homes. Prior to 1966, for 50 years the weighing operation had been conducted in a secluded and...

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