Morris Construction Co. v. Randolph
Morris Construction Co. v. Randolph
Opinion of the Court
The petition as amended alleged a cause of action; and the court did not err in overruling the general and special demurrers to the petition as amended. See Civil Code (1910), §§ 4629, 4571; Hall v. Lockerman, 127 Ga. 537 (56 S. E. 759).
Judgment affirmed.
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting. "A party can not successfully ask for relief in equity to set aside a judgment at law against him, on the ground that he failed or omitted to make a legal defense, unless he was prevented by fraud or accident, unmixed with any fraud or negligence by himself, from setting up such defense.” This ruling in the case of Bank of Doerun v. Fain, 148 Ga. 799 (98 S. E. 467), is but a restatement of the statute contained in sections 4584 and 5965 of the Civil Code; and the same principle has been stated in numerous other cases and applied to the facts
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