Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. v. Rachels

1. The chose in action sued on, being one involving a property right, was assignable. Sullivan v. Curling, 149 Ga. 96 (99 S. E. 533, 5 A. L. R. 124).

2. It appearing from the allegations in the petition that the title to the alleged chose in action sued on (a right of action against the defendant for a trespass upon real estate by cutting and removing therefrom growing timber) was, at the time of the filing of the suit, not in the plaintiff, the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, but in another as the plaintiff's assignee, viz. the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, which was not a party…