Case ID: ga-app_5/html/0357-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1465.
    Statham v. Southern States Life Insurance Co. et al.
    
    Complaint from cityr court of.Amerieus — Judge Crisp. October 17, 1908.
    Argued December 10,
    Decided December 22, 1908.
    
      E. A. Hawkins, for plaintiff.
    
      Jackson ■& Orme, Allen Fort & Son, for defendants.
   Powell, J.

1. A party will not be permitted to sue upon a contract and at the same time to allege that it is void because procured by fraud.

2. In the amendment tendered, the plaintiff sought to set up a new and distinct cause of action.

3. The court did not err in refusing to allow the amendment tendered, and in dismissing the petition, in accordance with the decision of this court in the case when it was here on a former writ of error. See So. States Life Ins. Co. v. Statham, 4 Ga. App. 482 ( 61 S. E. 886).

Judgment affirmed.