Court Opinion

ID: 9586665
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:13:52.538+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:47.219215
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Nichols, Judge,
concurring specially. I concur in the principles of law as stated in the majority opinion, but do not agree that they are entirely applicable in this case, in that the evidence shows an abandonment of the contract by all parties.
“Parties may by mutual consent abandon an existing contract between them so as to make it not thereafter binding and the contract may be rescinded by conduct, as well as by words. Hennessy v. Woodruff, 210 Ga. 742 (82 S. E. 2d 859); Shoup v. Elliott, 192 Ga. 858, 861 (16 S. E. 2d 857). . . An abandonment by both parties of an existing contract between them precludes either from complaining of a breach of the contract. Haigler v. Adams, 5 Ga. App. 637 (63 S. E. 715); Eaves & Collins v. Cherokee Iron Co., 73 Ga. 459.” Dowling v. Southwell, 95 Ga. App. 29 (96 S. E. 2d 903). “Where there is a special contract between the parties, a recovery on quantum meruit cannot be had.” Thomas McDonald & Co. v. Elliott, 92 Ga. App. 409 410 (88 S. E. 2d 440).
Applying the above stated law to the facts in this case the finding of the trial court, acting without the intervention of a jury was authorized. Since there was evidence of an abandonment by both parties to the express contract, and under such circumstances the plaintiff would not be entitled to recover under either count, the judgment of the trial court was not error.