Hames v. City of Marietta

Head, Justice.

1. Where pleadings do not make positive allegations, but are ambiguous or couched in alternative expressions, they will, on demurrer, be construed most strongly against the pleader. Baggett v. Edwards, 126 Ga. 463 (55 S. E. 250); Krueger v. MacDougald, 148 Ga. 429 (96 S. E. 867); Doyal v. Russell, 183 Ga. 518, 534 (189 S. E. 32); Saliba v. Saliba, 201 Ga. 577, 583 (40 S. E. 2d 511); Morris & Eckels Co. v. Fulton National Bank, 208 Ga. 222, 225 (65 S. E. 2d 815). Applying this rule in the present ease, the amended petition is sufficient to show an implied intention by Joseph M.…