Case Name: King v. Holt
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1924-03-13
Citations: 31 Ga. App. 795
Docket Number: 14860
Parties: King v. Holt.
Judges: Stephens a/nd Bell, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 31
Pages: 795–795

Head Matter:
14860.
King v. Holt.
Decided March 13, 1924.
Action for deceit; from DeKalb superior court—Judge Hutcheson. June 6, 1923.
Carl B. Copeland, G. N. Bynum, for plaintiff.
Napier, Wright & Wood, for defendant.

Opinion:
Jenkins, P. J.
In a vendee's action for deceit on account of false and fraudulent representations of tne vendor, it is necessary to allege and prove that the statements made by the vendor were false and fraudulent, that he knew they were such, and that the plaintiff relied upon them in entering upon the contract of purchase and sale, and was damaged. Brooke v. Cole, 108 Ga. 251, 252 (33 S. E. 849); Waldon v. Stokes, 23 Ga. App. 428 (98 S. E. 367). In the instant ease the plaintiff failed to sustain her case as laid; and while the proper course would have been to grant the motion to award a nonsuit upon the close of the plaintiff's case, yet -as the evidence introduced for the defendant did not cure the deficiency in the plaintiff's testimony, the subsequent grant of a nonsuit will be sustained. Burkhalier v. Lamer, 29 Ga. App. 416 (115 18. E. 920).
Judgment affirmed.
Stephens a/nd Bell, JJ., concur.