City of Atlanta v. Broadnax

How courts have described this case

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• OCGA § 36-33-5 applied to a claim for a continuing nuisance based upon recurrent flooding of the plaintiff's property due to overflow from the city's sewer system.
• OCGA § 36-33-5 applied to a claim for a continuing nuisance based upon recurrent flooding of the plaintiff’s property due to overflow from the city’s sewer system.
• “ ‘(w)here a municipality negligently constructs or undertakes to maintain a sewer or drainage system which causes the repeated flooding of property, a continuing, abatable nuisance is established, for which the municipality is liable’ ”
• affirming judgment on jury verdict in favor of defendant

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