Court Opinion

ID: 9587187
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:18:57.357211+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:02.160374
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Quillian, J.,
concurring specially. The most troubling question in this case is whether the plaintiff’s proof showed delivery to the contractor of the materials the plaintiff alleged were used in the improvement of the owner defendant’s property. The evidence in my opinion on this phase of the case was materially different on the trial of the case we now review from that held to be sufficient on a previous appearance of the case in this court. Then there was direct testimony of one Mr. Bondurant that the materials were delivered. His testimony is not contained in the brief of evidence on the latter trial. However, we find in the brief of evidence, included in the documentary evidence submitted by the plaintiff, the following:
“Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 1. Contract between Athens Lumber Company, Inc., and R. M. Saye, dated June 25, 1948, by the terms of which the lumber company agreed to sell certain building materials at and for the sum of $2,464.35, the materials to be delivered at the job site on the Winterville Road near Winter-ville, Ga-., the premises of the defendant, Mrs. Sarah Irene Burton, the contract being signed by Athens Lumber Company, Inc., and R. M. Saye, contractor.
“Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 2 consisting of delivery tickets from Athens Lumber Company, Inc., to the Burton job showing delivery of materials contracted to be sold to R. M. Saye by Athens Lumber Company, Inc. They bear various dates all subsequent to the execution to the contract referred to as Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 1.”
There was no proof of the correctness of the delivery slips, but under Code § 38-711 they were evidence of the facts they purported to show without having their accuracy verified by the testimony of any witness or witnesses who either delivered the items referred to in the slips or who made the slips or kept the record of them.