CHATHAM COUNTY v. ALLEN

No. S91A0109.

402 S.E.2d 718 (1991)

261 Ga. 177

CHATHAM COUNTY, et al. v. ALLEN.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Brennan, Brennan, Harris & Rominger and Emily Garrard, Chatham County Atty's Office, Savannah, for Chatham County, et al.

Gary M. Wisenbaker, Savannah, for Allen.


HUNT, Justice.

The question in this appeal is whether mandamus will lie to require a county to develop an unopened, but dedicated and accepted, road in a county subdivision.

Allen owns lots 520 through 530 in Montgomery Heights Subdivision which was first platted and recorded in Chatham County in 1910. Some, but not all, of the streets in the subdivision have been developed over the years, and those streets have been maintained by the county. Lots 526 through...

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