Crabb v. Wallace
Crabb v. Wallace
Opinion of the Court
On May 24, 1965, the plaintiff, Tommy Ray Crabb, instituted an action against Mrs. Annie Ruth Wallace, named defendant, to recover damages and for injunction. The damages in a stated amount were alleged to be caused by the defendant’s interfering with the plaintiff’s occupancy and use of described premises and a certain driveway, and the injunction prayed was to restrain her from further acts
The contract, attached as an exhibit and denominated in the petition a “lease,” contained several conditions that would attach in the event the instrument became operative as a lease. The conditions were that the lessee agreed: “to repair septic tank damages incurred by construction on part of lessee”; “to pay for one-half of cost of both labor and material for a new & larger pump for water system at completion of installation”; “to complete a track suitable to both lessee and lessor within a reasonable length of time”; and that “lessor grants full driveway rights to lessee as long as lessee maintains all repairs and upkeep incurred by same.” There was also contained in the document a provision: “Lessee is presently indebted to lessor in the amount of two thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight and 60/100 dollars to be paid in full by thirty days from this date, plus a rate of six percent interest on above mentioned amount or this lease is considered invalid at date due.”
The trial judge sustained a general demurrer and dismissed the petition. The plaintiff excepted. Held:
1. The sufficiency of the petition to withstand a general demurrer depends upon whether it sets forth a cause for legal or for equitable relief. Charles S. Martin &c. Co. v. Roberts, 219 Ga. 525, 531 (2) (134 SE2d 587), and cases there cited.
2. In the present case the plaintiff bases his entire right to recover damages and have injunctive relief solely upon the contract dated January 7, 1965, but does not allege that he or the partnership in the transaction paid the prior debt of
The petition set forth no cause of action.
Judgment affirmed.
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- Full Case Name
- CRABB v. WALLACE
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- Published