Georgia Power Company v. Roper

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

This case comes to this court on certiorari from the Court of Appeals, on the grant of which this court divided four to three. It is a suit at law by next friend for damages for personal in juries in which suit the plaintiff by his petition sought to avoid the effect of an admitted accord and satisfaction by showing that at the time such agreement was made he was mentally incompetent, and has since been so adjudged, and that such condition has continued since the accord and satisfaction was effected. The petition does not allege that the defendant had knowledge of such…