Case Name: Walker v. Wood
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1913-10-07
Citations: 14 Ga. App. 29
Docket Number: 4646
Parties: Walker v. Wood.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 29–30

Head Matter:
4646.
Walker v. Wood.
Decided October 7, 1913.
On motion eor rehearing October 31, 1913.
Motion to vacate judgment; from city court of Atlanta — Judge Reid. December 14, 1912.

Opinion:
Russell, J.
1. An obligation in a promissory note to pay attorney's fees if it be collected through an attorney at law is conditional; and for that reason, where attorney's fees are claimed in a suit upon such a note, an unsworn answer by the defendant, denying that the • statutory notice was given, is sufficient, as to the attorney's fees claimed.
2. Where' such an answer was erroneously stricken, it was error to overrule a motion, made during the term, to vacate a judgment in the plaintiff's favor, which included attorney's fees.
3. The stipulation in the note sued on, for the payment of attorney's fees, being conditional, the plaintiff was not entitled to a judgment for attorney's fees as upon an unconditional contract in writing. Turner v. Bank of Maysville, 13 Ga. App. 547 (79 S. E. 180).
Judgment reversed.
R. W. Crenshaw, S. D. Hewlett, for plaintiff in error.
H. L. Graves, contra.