Greenwood Cemetery, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.

The majority relies upon Board of Lights &c. v. Dobbs, 151 Ga. 53, 56 (105 SE 611) (1920). There an Act of the General Assembly authorized the Board of Lights and Waterworks to appoint a treasurer and pay him a salary. The court held that it could not be against public policy to *318compensate the treasurer because the General Assembly had authorized such compensation.

The majority relies on Code Ann. § 56-408. Those are definitions of various types of casualty insurance. In my view a definition is not invariably an authorization. For example, see Code Ann. § 26-1801 defining elements of the…