Doanes v. Nalley Chevrolet, Inc.

Bell, Judge.

Plaintiff in error insists that the trial court erred in sustaining the defendant’s general demurrer because the petition stated a cause of action on the basis that the plaintiff had been defrauded.

In Georgia the essential elements of a cause of action for the common-law tort of deceit based upon fraud have been stated tobe: “(1) a representation; (2) its falsity; (3) its materiality; (4) the speaker’s knowledge of its falsity or ignorance of its truth; (5) his intent that it should be acted upon by the person and in the manner reasonably contemplated; (6) the hearer’s ignorance…