Roberts & Hughey v. Harris
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint for rent, in Troup Superior Court. Tried Judge Bull, at the November Term, 1860. This was an action, in the simplified form of pleading, brought by Lewis F. Harris against Roberts & Hughey, to recover the sum of $300 00, alleged to be due the plaintiff for the rent of an office in the city of Savannah for the year 1857. The bill of particulars annexed to the petition was as follows: Messrs Roberts & Hughey, To Lewis F. Harris, Dr. 1857. Dec. 1. For one quarter’s…
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Complaint for rent, in Troup Superior Court. Tried Judge Bull, at the November Term, 1860. This was an action, in the simplified form of pleading, brought by Lewis F. Harris against Roberts & Hughey, to recover the sum of $300 00, alleged to be due the plaintiff for the rent of an office in the city of Savannah for the year 1857. The bill of particulars annexed to the petition was as follows: Messrs Roberts & Hughey, To Lewis F. Harris, Dr. 1857. Dec. 1. For one quarter’s rent of office in Savannah, with interest on same from date.....! 75 00 March 1. One quarter’s rent, interest on same from…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Cowt.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
On the trial the defendant objected to the reading of Benjamin’s Whitehead’s interrogatories, on the ground that the ninth cross-interrogatory was not answered. This objection is covered by the waiver of .defendant’s counsel, J. K. Strickland. It is in these words: “All objections to the execution and return of this set of interrogatories (meaning Whitehead’s) are hereby waived.” The whole of Whitehead’s testimony was objected to because it proved a special contract, and was inadmissible under the pleadings. We do not think there is anything in…
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