Jackson v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “provides that in suits in the superior court founded on a legal or equitable cause of action, for a legal or equitable remedy or both, relief of an equitable or legal nature may be had in the same action, the dismissal of the plaintiff's petition on demurrer as being without equity will not have the effect of dismissing a cross-bill of the defendant, alleging additional matters germane to the original petition, and praying affirmative relief, although the relief prayed is not equitable in character and is cognizable in a court of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Ga. App. 577 - Chemetron Corp. v. Southern Nitrogen Co.