Strachan Shipping Co. v. Hazlip-Hood Cotton Co.

In order to answer the first question it is necessary to bear in mind the meaning of the term “cause of action.” The Civil Code (1910), § 3652, declares: “For every violation of a contract express or implied, and for every injury done by another to person or property, the lav/ gives a right to recover, and a remedy to enforce it.” In Ellison v. Georgia Railroad Co., 87 Ga. 691, 699 (13 S. E. 811), it was said: “Relatively to the law of pleading, a cause of action is some particular legal duty of the defendant to the plaintiff, together with some definite breach of that duty which occasions…