O.C.G.A. § 44-9-90 (2019)
Petition for construction of tramway
Any person or corporation desiring to build or construct any tramway
to connect with any waterway or railway in this state for the purpose of transporting lumber, naval stores, and timber by means of the same may make application in writing to the judge of the probate court or the county commissioners of the county in which the tramway is to be located, which application shall set out the length of the tramway, the starting place and the terminus, and the line of its location.
History
Ga. L. 1887, p. 103, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 658; Civil Code 1910, § 804; Code 1933, § 83-301. History of Section. This Code section is derived, in part,
from the decision in Normandale Lumber Co. v. Knight, 89 Ga. 111, 14 S.E. 882 (1892).
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS O.C.G.A. § 44-9-90 applies only in cases of necessity. Normandale Lumber Co. v. Knight, 89 Ga. 111, 14 S.E. 882, 1892 Ga. LEXIS 278 (1892); Valdosta, M. & W.R.R. v. Adel Lumber Co., 136 Ga. 559, 71 S.E. 803, 1911 Ga. LEXIS 142 (1911); Alaculsey Lumber Co. v. Shippen Bros. Lumber Co., 143 Ga. 296, 84 S.E. 967, 1915 Ga. LEXIS 402 (1915); Hutchinson v. Caldwell Lumber Co., 146 Ga. 356, 91 S.E. 208, 1917 Ga. LEXIS 304 (1917). Right of way limited in length. - Where, in an attempt to condemn land for a right of way, the notice states that a strip 20 feet wide is to be condemned, this is manifestly not an attempt to apply O.C.G.A. Art. 5, Ch. 9, T. 44. Garbutt Lumber Co. v. Georgia & Ala. Ry., 111 Ga. 714, 36 S.E. 942, 1900 Ga. LEXIS 700 (1900).
Procedure for condemnation of right of way for a tramroad under O.C.G.A. § 44-9-90 is that prescribed in O.C.G.A. § 22-1-6 et seq. Hutchinson v. Copeland, 146 Ga. 357, 91 S.E. 206, 1917 Ga. LEXIS 305 (1917). Superior court given jurisdiction to entertain petition to enjoin proceeding. - The pendency of a proceeding to condemn land as a way of necessity for a tramroad is such a proceeding as to give the superior court of the county where the condemnation proceeding is pending jurisdiction to entertain a petition to enjoin the proceeding. Hutchinson v. Copeland, 146 Ga. 357, 91 S.E. 206, 1917 Ga. LEXIS 305 (1917).
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Exercise of power of eminent domain for
purposes of logging road or logging railroad, 86 A.L.R. 552.