City of Buford v. Gwinnett County

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• legislative exceptions in statutes are to be strictly construed and should be applied only so far as their language fairly warrants
• annexation void where property held in fee simple separated annexation from existing city limits because “the General Assembly surely did not intend” for an annexation to create an “isolated municipal island”
• this Court declined to reach a holding that would limit a city’s power of annexation to the boundaries set by a creek next to a railroad right-of-way or by a state road next to a piece of county property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).