Rivers v. Brown

Head, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) This court having held in Rivers v. Hailey, 199 Ga. 38 (supra) that the plaintiff was entitled to recover a part of the salary claimed, the legal effect of the former opinion was to reverse the judgment of the lower court in part only, since the lower court had sustained the demurrer generally. A general demurrer attacks every item of substance in the pleadings of the opposite party, while a special demurrer goes to the structure only. This rule was stated by this court in Martin v. Bartow Iron Works, 35 Ga. 323. as follows: “A general…