Court Opinion

ID: 9585399
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:59:55.308831+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:42:01.226571
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING. '
MacIntyre, P. J.
Paragraph 5 of the plaintiff in error's motion for a rehearing seeks to raise the question that the plaintiff in the allegations of his petition is claiming too much interest and also too much damages based on this excess of interest under Code § 56-706. A defect in the petition, in that the wrong measure of damage is set out, can be- reached only by special demurrer, which specifically points out the defect in the petition and is directed to that particular portion of it. Atlanta Plow Co. v. Bennett, 49 Ga. App. 672 (6) (176 S. E. 822); Koch Co. v. Adair, 49 Ga. App. 824 (3) (176 S. E. 680); National Bondholders Corp. v. Cheeseman, 190 Ga. 166, 168 (8 S. E. 2d, 391). *678There is no such special demurrer and the question is not now presented by this record. Brown v. Georgia, Carolina & Northern Ry. Co., 119 Ga. 88, 91 (46 S. E. 71). The petition sets forth a cause of action and if it set forth the wrong measure of damage, this may be. reached by a proper special demurrer; but the wrong measure .of damage does not subject the petition to a general demurrer. Elwell v. Atlanta Gas-Light Co., 51 Ga. App. 919 (6) (181 S. E. 599). ' This and all other matters in the motions for rehearing having been considered, the motions are denied.

Rehearing denied.

Gardner and Townsend, JJ., concur.