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SHELTON v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA.
25739.
NICHOLS, Justice.
Condemnation of land. Fulton Superior Court. Before Judge Alverson.
This is an appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict in a condemnation case. Jurisdiction is claimed to be in the Supreme Court under an enumeration of error calling for a "construction" of the Constitution and under in enumeration of error raising the constitutionality of a local "superior court rule."
1. The question calling for a "construction" of the Georgia Constitution was held in Bowers v. Fulton County, 225 Ga. 745 (171 SE2d 308) to present a question us to appellant only of the Georgia Constitution.
2. A "rule of the Superior Court of Fulton County" is not a "law of the State of Georgia" within the meaning of the constitutional provision defining the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. Compare Maner v. Dykes, 183 Ga. 118 (187 SE 699); Carter v. Bishop, 209 Ga. 146 (71 SE2d 216), and citations. Accordingly, the Court of Appeals and not the Supreme Court has jurisdiction of the appeal in the instant case.
Undercofler, Justice, dissenting. The question raised here is whether the constitutional provision requiring just and adequate compensation in condemnation cases (Code Ann. 2-301) includes the payment of attorney fees. This is the same question that was raised in Bowers v. Fulton County, 225 Ga. 745, supra, and I reiterate my dissent.
King & Spalding, R. William Ide, for appellee.
J. P. Shelton, pro se.
ARGUED APRIL 14, 1970 -- DECIDED APRIL 23, 1970.
Friday May 22 17:20 EDT


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