Case ID: ga_55/html/0655-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John A. Buffington, plaintiff in error, vs. William W. Hilley, defendant in error.
    Except in cases of special liens for rent on crops made on the land rented, a landlord may distrain for rent without any previous demand for payment from his tenant.
    
      Landlord and tenant. Distress warrant. Demand. Before Judge Knight. Cobb Superior Court. November Term, 1875.
    Reported in the opinion.
    George N. Lester; Gartrell & Dunwoody, for plaintiff in error.
    W. T. & W. J. Winn, for defendant.
   Jackson, Judge.

This was a distress warrant for rent. It does not appear in the plaintiff’s affidavit that he had ever demanded the rent, and the defendant moved to dismiss the warrant on that ground. The court dismissed it, and this is the error assigned.

This is not a case of special lien on crops made on the land rented under section 1977 of the Code, but a proceeding under the general law regulating distraining for rent, found in sections 2285, 2286, 4082,4083, and 4084 of our Code. No demand is necessary to be made in such cases, and hence none need be sworn to.

Let the judgment be reversed.