Supreme Court of Georgia February 13, 1952, 17702 (Waters v. DeKalb County)

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Article I, Section III, Paragraph I, of our Constitution of 1945 (Code, Ann., § 2-301) emphatically declares that “private property shall not be taken, or damaged, for public purposes, without just and adequate compensation being first paid.” The same provision appeared in the Constitution of 1877.