Bowers v. Keller
Bowers v. Keller
Opinion of the Court
1. The plaintiff sued out an attachment against the defendant as a non-resident. The defendant answered, traversing the allegations of the affidavit and denying the indebtedness, and thereafter at the trial filed a special plea setting up that the indebtedness sued upon was contracted by the plaintiff in a trade-name which had not been registered as required by law, and that therefore there could be no recovery therefor. It appears that at the trial the plaintiff introduced no evidence, and defendant sustained his plea by evidence, but on cross-
2. Under the answer of the Supreme Court to the certified question presented to it in this case, the action of the judge in sustaining the plea and granting a nonsuit, is reversed and a new trial ordered. See Bowers v. Keller, 185 Ga. 435 (195 S. E. 447).
Judgment reversed.
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