Case ID: ga-app_102/html/0452-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Nichols, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

38497.
    THE HITCHCOCK CORPORATION v. TURNER et al.
    
    Decided September 27, 1960.
    
      Smith, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hancock, Glover McGhee, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Bagwell & Hames, James A. Bagwell, contra.
   Nichols, Judge.

1. A petition seeking to recover only punitive and exemplary damages is subject to general demurrer (Beverly v. Observer Publishing Co., 88 Ga. App. 490, 77 S. E. 2d 80; Gartrell v. Afro-American Life Ins. Co., 88 Ga. App. 806, 78 S. E. 2d 92), and the judgment of the trial court overruling the defendant’s general demurrer to the plaintiffs’ petition must be reversed since only punitive and exemplary damages were sought.

2. Where the judgment of the trial court overruling the defendant’s general demurrer to the plaintiffs’ petition is reversed the questions raised by the defendant’s special demurrers become nugatory. DeWinne v. Waldrep, 101 Ga. App. 570 (114 S. E. 2d 455).

Judgment reversed.

Felton, C. J., and Bell, J., concur.