All rights of action accruing against any electric membership corporation growing out of the acquisition of rights of way or easements or the occupying of lands of others by such electric membership corporations shall be barred at the end of 12 months from the date of the accrual of such cause of action; and in cases where any such electric membership corporation is in possession of the lands of others without having condemned the property as provided, and such electric membership corporation is using any such land of another for any of the purposes for which an electric membership corporation may be created under this article, and the owners of the land took no legal steps to prevent the occupation of the land by the electric membership corporation, the rights of the owner of the land shall be limited to whatever damages may have been caused to his realty by such occupation; and this limitation shall apply to all persons whether sui juris or not.
(Ga. L. 1939, p. 312, § 3; Code 1933, § 34C-205, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 26 Am. Jur. 2d, Eminent Domain, §§ 136. 171 et seq.
27 Am. Jur. 2d, Eminent Domain, §§ 910, 911, 912, 917.
C.J.S.- 29 C.J.S., Electricity, § 59.
ALR.- Effect of fraud to toll the period for bringing action prescribed in statute creating the right of action, 15 A.L.R.2d 500.
Settlement negotiations as estopping reliance on statute of limitations, 39 A.L.R.3d 127.
Fraud as extending statutory limitations period for contesting will or its probate, 48 A.L.R.4th 1094.