Case Name: Heath v. Davis
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1937-09-16
Citations: 184 Ga. 704
Docket Number: No. 11891
Parties: Heath v. Davis.
Judges: All the Justices concur, except Russell, O. J., who dissents, and Bech, P. J., and Bell, J., ahsent because of illness.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 184
Pages: 704–706

Head Matter:
Heath v. Davis.
No. 11891.
September 16, 1937.

Opinion:
Hutcheson, Justice.
1. There was sufficient evidence adduced on the trial of the ca:se to authorize the charge by the court giving to the jury substantially the law as set out in the Code, § 37-116, that "Notice sufficient to excite attention and put a party on inquiry shall be notice of everything to which it is afterwards found such inquiry might have led. Ignorance of a fact, duo to negligence, shall be equivalent to knowledge, in fixing the rights of the parties."
2. Tlie evidence was' sufficient to authorize the verdiet, and the court did not err in overruling the motion for new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur, except Russell, O. J., who dissents, and Bech, P. J., and Bell, J., ahsent because of illness.
Edwards & Edwards, for plaintiff.
Walter Matthews, for defendant.