Garrett v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of Georgia
Damages.' Pleadings. Before Judge Carswell. Washington Superior Court. March Term, 1886. R. F. Garrett brought his action to recover $640 damages from Stephen Hitchcock.
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Damages.' Pleadings. Before Judge Carswell. Washington Superior Court. March Term, 1886. R. F. Garrett brought his action to recover $640 damages from Stephen Hitchcock. The body of the declaration was as follows: “The said Stephen Hitchcock rented to your petitioner his plantation, containing about 300 acres, more or less, for the year 1884, with the option of holding said plantation for four more years, at and for the sum of five hundred pounds lint cotton for the year 1884 and for 1,000 pounds of lint cotton for each subsequent year. That your petitioner rented said plantation for the year…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Garrett sued Hitchcock for breach of contract in not furnishing him a good mule to work a certain crop on a certain tract of land he had leased from Hitchcock, laying *429his damages at six hundred and thirty dollars, which, he alleges, in one way and another he could have made, and which he lost by reason of the mule’s not being able to do “regular plowing.”
On the trial, at trial term, on oral demurrer, the action was dismissed, and plaintiff excepted..
The declaration is uncertain and indefinite, if not purely imaginative and farcical. It is not alleged how bad off the…
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