Nearly a decade after Fulton County seized his horses over allegations of animal mistreatment, a South Fulton horseman’s fight to receive just compensation for his property has become a potentially precedent-setting constitutional case.
Brandon Fulton, whose seven horses were seized in 2017, appeared Tuesday outside the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in downtown Atlanta, where judges heard arguments in his long-running lawsuit against Fulton County.
Fulton was never indicted, and the allegations against him were dismissed in 2018. But by the time he sought the return of his horses, the animals had been sold or transferred by rescue organizations entrusted with their care…