Grand Atlanta Corp. v. Chenggis

Smith, Judge.

This is an appeal from the grant of a judgment on the pleadings in favor of the defendants, a firm of attorneys at law, in an action by their client, a building contractor, seeking damages for the alleged failure of the attorneys to file a lis pendens notice pursuant to the Act of 1939, pp. 345, 346 (Code Ann. §§ 67-2801 through 67-2804) in Bibb County, Georgia, where the improved real estate was located. Plaintiff brought the action in the State Court of Cobb County, against the party with whom the builder contracted. The complaint alleges compliance by the contractor with the…