Court Opinion

ID: 5632358
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Date Created: 2022-01-11 05:28:35.333856+00
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Eberhardt, Judge.
1. Where a grading contractor brought suit against another contractor seeking to recover a balance alleged to be due and for which “defendant obligated to pay plaintiff,” for services performed in the grading and moving of dirt on land of a third party, who was not a party to the action, allegations and exhibits relative to the recording of a claim for lien against the land and a prayer for special judgment foreclosing a lien thereon, being wholly inappropriate to the action (Cf. Buck v. Tifton Mfg. Co., 4 Ga. App. 695 *320(62 SE 107); Chambers Lmbr. Co. v. Gilmer, 60 Ga. App. 832, 835 (5 SE2d 84)), are to be regarded as surplusage in determining whether the petition can withstand a general demurrer.
Submitted September 5, 1967
Decided September 15, 1967.
Charles W. Hill, Owens & Porter, for appellant.
Perry, Walters, Langstaff & Lippitt, Robert B. Langstaff, for appellee.
2. Where the petition contains the bare essentials of a common law action on contract and prays for a general judgment as damages for its breach a general demurrer should be overruled.

Judgment reversed.

Felton, C. J., and Hall, J., concur.