Cochran v. Murrah

235 Ga. 304 (1975)

219 S.E.2d 421

COCHRAN et al.

v.

MURRAH.

30107.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Argued July 10, 1975.

Decided September 30, 1975.

Dennis & Fain, Michael J. Gorby, Dennis J. Webb, for appellants.

Scott Walters, Jr., for appellee.

HILL, Justice.

In this appeal upon certificate from the denial of the defendants' motion for summary judgment, the sole issue concerns cancellation, upon equitable grounds, of a release signed by the plaintiff.

The plaintiff had been employed by defendant William O. Cochran for over eight years as a farm laborer. He was paid seventy dollars a week and lived in a house…