City of Atlanta v. J. J. Black & Co.

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• “‘Property’ at common law was limited to tangible realty or personalty, and therefore cannot be extended to include property rights in contracts.” (emphasis supplied)
• “[For] claims arising out of contracts, as contrasted with torts, the city, being a party to the contract, is already on notice as to the existence and the circumstances of the contract which is the basis of the claim; therefore the reason for such notice does not exist.” (emphasis supplied)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).