Hopkins v. Sicro

Felton, Chief Judge.

A motion to strike, or to dismiss, is, in effect, a general demurrer and is therefore subject to the rule that it is ineffectual unless the pleading against which it is directed as a whole is fatally defective. Venable v. Gresham, 105 Ga. App. 720, 721 (125 SE2d 507) and citations. The petition alleged that the plaintiff was driving within her own lane at a reasonable rate of speed; that the collision occurred late at night and that the portion of the house which protruded into the plaintiff’s lane was unlighted; and that the defendants’ alleged acts of negligence were the…