Court Opinion

ID: 9572679
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:43:38.637562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:33:48.169918
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Nichols, Judge.
The sole contention raised by the plaintiff in error, the defendant in the court below, is that each count of the petition is barred by the statute of limitation and that his demurrer raising such issue should have been sustained.
The statute of limitation based on an oral contract is four years from the date the action accrued (Code § 3-706), and the question presented in this case is when the action accrued. The *563defendant contends in support of his demurrers that the action accrued on the dates the moneys were loaned. If such contention is correct, since the action was not filed until more than four years after the dates when such moneys were allegedly advanced or loaned, the demurrers raising the question as to the statute of limitation should have been sustained inasmuch as such facts are shown on the face of the petition. See Howell v. Seigler, 89 Ga. App. 221 (1) (78 S. E. 2d 874), and citations.
In Teasley v. Bradley, 110 Ga. 497, 504 (35 S. E. 782, 78 Am. St. Rep. 113), it was said: “When money is loaned and there is no agreement as to the time of repayment, the amount loaned is in law due immediately, and the statute of limitations begins to run at once in favor of the borrower.” In that case the Supreme Court, was dealing with money loaned without a written contract and without any definite time being agreed upon for repayment. The present case, in each count, alleged that the money was loaned and that the defendant was to repay it upon demand, and there was no allegation that the plaintiff would not demand the repayment until some future time. (See Smith v. Early, 60 Ga. App. 506, 3 S. E. 2d 913). The petition shows on its face that the action was barred since more than four years had elapsed between the time the money was loaned and the action brought. The trial court erred in overruling the defendant’s demurrers based on the statute of limitation.

Judgment reversed.

All the Judges concur except Felton, C. J., and Bell, J., who dissent.