If a person seeking to exercise the power of eminent domain under this article fails to procure, by contract, title to the land necessary or proper for the construction and successful operation of a waterworks or sanitary sewerage system, or both, and the parties cannot agree upon the damage done, the same shall be assessed as provided in Chapter 2 of this title.
(Ga. L. 1889, p. 184, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 2408; Civil Code 1910, § 2924; Code 1933, § 36-902; Ga. L. 1990, p. 731, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Eminent Domain, § 370 et seq.
C.J.S.- 29A C.J.S., Eminent Domain, § 250 et seq.
ALR.- Admissibility, in eminent domain proceeding, of evidence as to price paid for condemned real property during pendency of the proceeding, 55 A.L.R.2d 781.
Admissibility, in eminent domain proceeding, of evidence as to price paid for condemned real property on sale prior to the proceeding, 55 A.L.R.2d 791.
Eminent domain: recovery of value of improvements made with knowledge of impending condemnation, 98 A.L.R.3d 504.