Brown v. Bass
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. October 16, 1907, Brown brought an action against Bass to recover rent for the Sanford farm in Floyd county, arising under a lease contract between the Union Central Life Insurance Company as lessor, and Bass as lessee.
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Complaint. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. October 16, 1907, Brown brought an action against Bass to recover rent for the Sanford farm in Floyd county, arising under a lease contract between the Union Central Life Insurance Company as lessor, and Bass as lessee. The petition alleged, in effect, that the lease contract was transferred by the insurance company to Garlington and Peek and by them to the plaintiff; that subsequently to the execution of such contract the insurance company entered into a written agreement with Mrs. Elizabeth L. Sanford to sell to her the Sanford farm, in…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
(After stating the facts.) The court did not err in excluding evidence, and a nonsuit was properly granted, as the plaintiff could not recover after the rejection of the proffered, evidence by which he sought to show that he had acquired title to the lease contract and the rents arising thereunder. The scope of the objection to the transfer, by the insurance company, of the lease contract to Garlington and Peek, that such transfer was. inadmissible until there was proof of its execution, was not limited merely to the necessity^ of showing that the persons whose-names were signed to the…
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