Dalton v. Drake
Supreme Court of Georgia
Pleadings. Verdict. Practice in Superior Court. Evidence. New Trial. Charge of Court. Statute of Limitations. Mutual Accounts. Before Judge Pottle. Oglethorpe Superior Court.
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Pleadings. Verdict. Practice in Superior Court. Evidence. New Trial. Charge of Court. Statute of Limitations. Mutual Accounts. Before Judge Pottle. Oglethorpe Superior Court. October Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision, it is necessary to add only that the following were among the grounds of the motion for a new trial: (1.) Because the court overruled the demurrer to the plea setting up the conduct of the plaintiff in the management of the business confided to him, and asserting that he had been paid for all service rendered. The principal ground of demurrer was that this was…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This was an action in the statutory form on an open account, containing various items, and seems to have been brought principally for the purpose of recovering eleven thousand dollars alleged to be due the plaintiff for services rendered to Mrs. E. A. Dalton, in managing and conducting her entire business for eleven years at one thous- and dollars per annum, and to recover one-half the income and movable machinery of a mill and gin, in which it *118was alleged she and plaintiff were jointly interested. To this suit Mrs. Dalton pleaded only the general issue; pending the action, she…
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