Case ID: ga_144/html/0021-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case Threshing Machine Company v. Thurmond.
    August 11, 1915.
    Complaint. BefQre Judge Walker. Wilkes superior court. June 15, 1914.
    
      G. R. Sutton, for plaintiff.
    
      Colley & Colley, for defendant.
   Lumpkin, J.

1. If the counter-claim set up against the plaintiff by the defendant in his plea be treated as one arising ex contractu, it was the subject-matter of set-off. If it be treated as one arising ex delicto, it was alleged that the plaintiff was a non-resident corporation, and that he should be allowed to plead an equitable set-off. In either event, there was no error in refusing to strike the plea on the ground that it sought to set off damages for a tort against a suit on a contract. See, in this connection, Bibb Land-Lumber Co. v. Lima Machine Works, 104 Ga. 116 (30 S. E. 676, 31 S. E. 401); Hecht v. Snook, 114 Ga. 921, 924-5 (41 S. E. 74); Arnold v. Carter, 125 Ga. 319-325 (54 S. E. 177).

2. There -was sufficient evidence to support the verdict, and there was no error in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.