Lewis v. DeKalb County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding under predecessor to 1983 Georgia Constitution that provision prohibiting the taking of private property for a public purpose without compensation had “no relevance to the exercise of the police power by the state or its political subdivisions”
• “mere approval of plats containing offers of dedication did not constitute acceptance”
• interpreting similar language in prior version of constitution
• interpreting similar language in prior version of constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).