23 Ga. App. 290 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1919
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Something may properly be said in elaboration of the last two divisions of the syllabus. The clause in the lease agreement making the rent payable either to the Glover Eealty Company, or to its successors or assigns can not be construed, as was done in Swarts v. Narragansett Electric Lighting Co., 26 E. I. 436 (59 Atl. 111), as words merely descriptive of the persons who might take an interest in or incur a liability under the contract, but must be taken as effecting the terms of the contract itself. Here the words as plainly employed designate the person or persons who shall execute the contract, and are not intended to be merely descriptio personae and to pertain only to who might acquire a right or incur a liability thereunder. See also Schlesinger v. Forest Products Co., 78 N. J. L. 637 (76 Atl. 1024, 30 L. R. A. (N. S.) 347, 138 Am. St. E. 637). But while, in the proper construction of a contract which might otherwise be taken as having been intended to be personal in its
It is our opinion that the judge of the superior court erred in sustaining the certiorari and rendering final judgment in favor of the defendant.
Judgment reversed.