Laster v. Star Rental, Inc.

This writer has reservations about joining the majority opinion’s expression of sympathy for the appellant over the appellee’s resort to OCGA § 16-8-19, as well as its condemnation of that statute.

First of all, I am not so sure that the legislative intent behind the statute did not include a motivation to promote payment of lease obligations. “Why should not a man pay what he owes, and perform what he promises? If he will mot do so voluntarily, why should not society, through wholesome laws, compel him? Fidelity to contracts is essential to private virtue and to public order and prosperity.”…