H. G. Brown Family Ltd. Partnership v. City of Villa Rica

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the city’s contract to purchase property was “ultra vires, null and void” because the city did not comply with the requirements in its charter
• explaining that “ ‘[i]f the contract was imperfectly or irregularly executed, it may not necessarily be completely ineffective, as long as it was the type of contract within the power of the local government to make’ ” (citation omitted)
• contract entered into by municipality in excess of authority to enter contracts is void; void contract not validated by part performance or detrimental reliance
• contract entered into by municipality in excess of authority to enter contracts is void; void contract not validated by part performance or detrimental reliance
• “A municipality has no inherent power; it may only exercise power to the extent it has been delegated authority by the state.”
• “A municipality has no inherent power; it may only exercise power to the extent it has been delegated authority by the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).