City of Atlanta v. City of College Park

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]hen a statute is plain and susceptible of but one natural and reasonable construction, a court must simply follow the literal language of the statute, unless doing so would lead to absurd or wholly impracticable consequences.”
• “Under Georgia law, when [a city] acts in its capacity as a lessor at the airport for the purpose of obtaining revenue, it is acting in a proprietary capacity and not carrying out a governmental function.”
• “Under Georgia law, when [a city] acts in its capacity as a lessor at the 10 undertaken for the purpose of producing revenue, rather than for benefitting the public, the provisions of OCGA § 36-60-13 (a
• “[W]hen a statute is plain and susceptible of but one natural and reasonable construction, a court must simply follow the literal language of the statute, unless doing so would lead[ ] to absurd or wholly impracticable consequenees[.]” (second and third alterations in original
• “city charter is a local law, not a general law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).