Screven Oil Co. v. Jarrell

1. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff was estopped by reason of the fact that she had agreed, in the note which she gave for the price of commercial fertilizers, to waive all penalties imposed by law for violations of the act of 1911 (Georgia Laws 1911, page 172), by her written agreement to 'confine her recovery to the mere difference between the commercial value as ascertained by the State chemist, and the real commercial value as stated upon the sacks by the manufacturer of the fertilizer. There can be no such estoppel. It is contrary to sound public policy, as well as the express…