McMurray v. Bateman

Quillian, Justice.

The defendant, plaintiff in error here, contends his general demurrer should have been sustained because the contract between the parties, made a part of the petition and upon which the plaintiff’s cause is based, is unilateral and unenforceable. A contract is unilateral in the sense that renders it invalid “when one party to it is bound and the other is not, or when one party gets something and the other nothing.” Lowery Lock Co. v. Wright, 154 Ga. 867 (1e) (115 SE 801). While “a promise of another is a good consideration for a promise” (Code § 20-304), “ ‘the promise in…