Good Roads Machinery Co. v. Neal & Son
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint; from Fulton superior court — Judge Pendleton. January 9, 1917. This action was by the Good Eoads Machinery Company against a partnership composed of W. A. Neal Sr. and W. A. Neal Jr., and was based on a contract for the purchase of machinery, evidenced, by four letters embodied in plaintiff’s petition. .An oral motion by defendants to dismiss the action, on the ground that no cause of action was set forth, was granted.
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Complaint; from Fulton superior court — Judge Pendleton. January 9, 1917. This action was by the Good Eoads Machinery Company against a partnership composed of W. A. Neal Sr. and W. A. Neal Jr., and was based on a contract for the purchase of machinery, evidenced, by four letters embodied in plaintiff’s petition. .An oral motion by defendants to dismiss the action, on the ground that no cause of action was set forth, was granted. This order of dismissal is the error- complained of. The letters referred to are as follows: “128 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 24, 1911. “The Good Eoads…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Applying the law as stated- in the foregoing headnotes, .we 'think the correspondence set forth in the, petition contained all the essentials of a valid contract. Counsel for the defendants insist that the plaintiff, in accepting the check for $2480 and placing that amount to the proper account as stated in their letter, merely ratified the acts of defendants as their collecting agents in the settlement had with St. Lucie County, and did not thereby do *166any act which could be taken to ratify a purchase of the machinery by the defendants. We think that when…
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