Legal Opinion

Bell v. Morton

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 15, 1882PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Where a suit in a justice’s court was for $49.25 principal, alleged to have become due more than a year before suit, the interest attached to the principal in determining the amount claimed, and the case was appealable. Code, §2057; 64 Ga., 684; 62 Ib. 608.

(a.) Accounts which by custom become due at the end of the year bear interest from that time upon the amount actually due whenever ascertained.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Howard v. Chamberlin, Boynton & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1880

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Magarahan v. Wright & LamkinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1889