152 Ga. App. 823 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1979
The appellee sued Camilla Cotton Oil Co. on an employment contract, alleging that it had furnished the appellant an upper grade management employee and that it refused to. pay the applicable fee according to its contract. From a verdict in favor of the personnel consultant firm, the employer appeals.
1. The evidence shows without contradiction that William Mills, president of the plaintiff corporation, had an initial interview with Lee Jones in which he outlined to him the management structure and duties of the job with Camilla Cotton Oil Company, for which he wished Jones considered and for which Jones was in fact hired after an interview arranged by Mills. At the close of the direct examination, several documents were identified and offered in evidence. Objection was made to a photocopy of notes identified by Mills as being in his handwriting and taken by him and being all of his notes on the meeting in question. Asked to account for the original, he stated that the original was a part of his company’s business records located in "what we call a big diary of our work.” The introduction of this photocopy is not reversible error. The witness positively identified the notes as having been made by himself and that the notes were made in the regular course of business. He made an exact photocopy of these. From the fact that the original was placed in a
2. It was held in Positions, Inc. v. Steel Deck &c. Co., 138 Ga. App. 200 (225 SE2d 769) (1976) that Code Chapter 84-41, the Private Employment Agencies Act, does not apply to personnel consultants who are retained and paid solely by employers with no fee charged to the job seeker. In reliance upon this case, the trial court properly denied the appellant’s motion for a directed verdict. The undisputed evidence is that the plaintiff is a firm of
Judgment affirmed.
