Jones v. Faulkner

Nichols, Judge.

While the plaintiff seeks to recover back the money paid the defendant under the pleaded contract because the defendant is not an attorney at law, and while such contention, if the defendant had agreed to represent her as an attorney, may have been good (see Lowe v. Presley, 86 Ga. App. 328, 71 S. E. 2d 730), the petition in the present case is otherwise defective and subject to general demurrer. The contract under which the money in question was paid to the defendant is void because it is illegal, immoral and against the policy of the law. Code §§ 20-501, 20-504. Upon his…