Jones v. Owens
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint; from city court of Atlanta—Judge Eeid. October 4, 1917. (Certiorari to review this decision was granted by the Supreme Court.) Upon a promissory note of Charles. C. Jones and Mrs. Ola E. Jones to Claude E. Buchanan, indorsed by the payee, suit against the makers and the indorser was brought by Mrs. Theo. C. Owens, as executrix of Frank 0. Owens and individually.
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Complaint; from city court of Atlanta—Judge Eeid. October 4, 1917. (Certiorari to review this decision was granted by the Supreme Court.) Upon a promissory note of Charles. C. Jones and Mrs. Ola E. Jones to Claude E. Buchanan, indorsed by the payee, suit against the makers and the indorser was brought by Mrs. Theo. C. Owens, as executrix of Frank 0. Owens and individually. The note (as appeared from a recital therein), was given for a part of the purchase-price of a house and lot known as No. 14 Mechanic street, in the city of Atlanta. The case came to the Court of Appeals on exceptions of…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
1. The court, through inadvertence, struck that portion of the defendants’ answers in which service of notice of claim for attorney’s fees was denied. Hpon the trial of the case the court, realizing its error, passed an order declaring that the order to strike the answers "will not be enforced so far as the same strikes the answers of the defendants denying paragraph 1 of the plaintiff’s petition; and the court now offers to the defendant full opportunity to be heard on the issue made by the allegations of the plaintiff in paragraph 1, and the answers of the defendants denying the same; and…
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