Case ID: ga_74/html/0397-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandford, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Johnson vs. Central Railroad.
    Where suit was brought against “the Central Bailroadand Banking Company,” and a motion was made to dismiss the case on the ground that there was no such corporation, an amendment, adding, the words, “ of Georgia,” to the name of the defendant, should have been allowed. 14 Oa., 277.
    
      (a.) The actof 1850, which declared that all misnomers in writs, petitions, bills or other judicial proceedings on the civil side of the court might be amended and corrected on motion instanter, was not limited or restricted by the insertion of the words, “ whether in the Christian or surname,” in §34S3 of the Code. The term, “ Christian name,” is used in the sense of given name, and includes the name given to a corporation by the legislature.
    November 11, 1884.
   Blandford, Justice.