Case ID: ga-app_6/html/0696-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1794.
    Bass & Company v. Bearden.
    Certiorari, from Haralsou superior court — Judge Edwards. March 15, 1909.
    Submitted May 20, —
    Decided October 5, 1909.
    
      Griffith, Weatherly & Matthews, for plaintiffs.
    
      M. J. Head, for defendant.
   Hill, O. J.

J. 0. Bass & Co. sued W. D. Bearden in a justice’s court, as the maker of a promissory note payable to themselves. The justice, in writing the name of the plaintiff, in the original summons, left off the words “& Co.,” and also left out the same words in entering the ease on his docket, leaving the case pending as one brought by J. C. Bass against W. D. Bearden. A copy of the note sued on was attached to the summons. Held: (1) An amendment adding the words “& Co.” to the original summons and to the entry of the case on the docket was improperly allowed, as this was adding a new party plaintiff. (2) An appeal by J. C. Bass & Co. from the judgment rendered by the justice in the case of J. C. Bass v. W. D. Bearden should have been dismissed, unless the words “& Co.” had been stricken by the appellant. The judgment of the superior court sustaining the certiorari is Affirmed.