Case ID: ga-app_25/html/0633-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Jenkins, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10411.
    Dayhuff v. Brown & Allen.
    Decided September 17, 1920.
    Action for damages; from Fulton superior court — Judge Pendleton. January 31, 1919.
    By plea in bar to Mrs. Dayhuff’s action for damages on account of the death of her husband, the defendant sets up that in a previous action, brought by him and prosecuted by her as his administratrix, damages for total loss of Ms earning capacity and for his pain and suffering were recovered by her on account of the same alleged negligent and wrongful act which in this subsequent suit was alleged to be tbe cause of his death. To this plea the plaintiff demurred on the ground that no valid defense was set up by 'it. The demurrer was overruled. The plaintiff then, by way of reply, 'amended her petition and in substance admitted the 'allegations of fact as to the previous suit and recovery, but contended that they constituted no defense to this action. The defendants demurred, contending that the facts stated constituted an estoppel, the court sustained the demurrer and dismissed the petition, and the case came to the Court of Appeals on exceptions to the rulings stated. The Supreme Court, in answer to a certified question from this court, held that the facts alleged constituted no bar to tbe action, and, on review, declined to overrule its decision in tbe case of Spradlin v. Georgia Railway & Electric Co., 139 Ga. 575.
    
   Jenkins, P. J.

The court erred in overruling the demurrer to the defendant’s plea in bar, and in thereafter sustaining the demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition. See answers by tbe Supreme Court to certified questions propounded in this case. 150 Ga. 291 (103 S. E. 458).

Judgment reversed.

Stephens and Smith, JJ., concur.

Westmoreland, Anderson & Smith, for plaintiff.

Rosser, Slaton, Phillips & Hopkins, for defendant.