Case ID: ga_180/html/0463-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Atkinson, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

National Life and Accident Insurance Company v. Lain; et vice versa.
    
    No. 10461.
    March 12, 1935.
   Atkinson, Justice.

The words “attorney’s fees” as employed in section 3 of the act of 1933 (Ga. L. 1933, p. 290), amending- the act creating- the municipal court of Atlanta, considered in connection with section 1 of the act, refer to attorney’s fees that are ancillary to the main relief sought in a suit of which the court has jurisdiction, and are not confined to “contractual attorney’s fees as provided for in a promissory note or other written contract.”

All the Justices concur.

Hendrix & Buchanan, for plaintiff in error.

A. Walton Nall, Roberts & Nall, and E. B. Lovell, contra.