General Telephone Co. v. Pritchett

Pannell, Judge.

1. “The basic premise of the new Civil Practice Act is that it does away with ‘issue pleading’ and substitutes ‘notice pleading.’ In the famous Reynolds case (Reynolds v. Reynolds, 217 Ga. 234, 246 (123 SE2d 115)), the Supreme Court of Georgia quoted with approval the Supreme Court of the United States: ‘. . . Under the prior federal practice, the pre-trial functions of notice-giving, issue-formulation and fact-revelation were performed primarily and inadequately by the pleadings. Inquiry into the issues and the facts before trial was narrowly confined and was often cumbersome…