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175 Ga. 430

McCowan v. Snook

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided August 15, 1932

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1932-08-15

Relies on Conley v. Buck · White v. North Georgia Electric Co. · George W. Muller Bank Fixture Co. v. Southern Seating & Cabinet Co.

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Decided 1932-08-15

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Atkinson, J.

¶1A suit in equity, based on separate and distinct claims against different persons', where there is no common right to be established, will be dismissed on demurrer on the ground of multifariousness. Civil Code, §§ 5523, 5419, 5515; White v. North Georgia Electric Co., 128 Ga. 539 (58 S. E. 33); George W. Muller &c. Co. v. Southern Seating &c. Co., 147 Ga. 106 (92 S. E. 884).

¶2(a) The facts do not bring the case within the principle applied in Conley v. Buck, 100 Ga. 187 (28 S. E. 97), and Waters v. Brownlee, 136 Ga. 182 (71 S. E. 6).

¶3(&) The petition in the instant case was originally multifarious, and was so after allowance of all amendments, and as finally amended it should have been dismissed in its entirety.

¶4(c) The judge did not err in the two judgments dismissing the action upon which error was assigned in the main bill of exceptions.

¶5(d) That part of the judgment which retained the case as against some of the defendants, and upon which error was assigned in the cross-bill of exceptions, was erroneous.

¶6 Judgment affirmed on the main bill of exceptions, and reversed on the cross-bill.

All the Justices concur. T. M. Linder and S. P. New, for plaintiff. J. K. Jordan, Tye, Thomson & Tye, T. L. Slappey, Sutherland & Tuttle, Howell, Heyman & Bolding, Shelfer & Bunaway, L. C. Hopkins, Bryan, Middlebrooks & Carter, W. P. Bloodworth, and E. C. Stark, for defendants.
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