24 Ga. App. 294 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1919
This is a suit by S. L. Graham against Floyd County to recover $30.95, this sum having been paid by him as rent for a telephone installed in his office in the court-house of the county. PlajntifPs petition shows that he is the clerk of the superior court of Floyd county, as well as ex-officio clerk of the city court of said county, and that the telephone in question was installed in his office for the necessary and proper conduct of said office; that the defendant county has failed and refused to pay for the same, but that the aforementioned sum has been paid by him. The defendant interposed a demurrer, to the overruling of which it excepted.
The sole question for adjudication in this case (and this is admitted by counsel for plaintiff in error in his brief) is whether or not a county is liable for a telephone installed in the office of a clerk of the superior court, which instrument is to be used in the necessary conduct of the legitimate business of said office. Section 402 of the Civil Code (1910) is as follows: “It shall be
From what is said above it is clear that the petition set out a cause of action, and that the trial judge did not err in overruling the demurrer.
Judgment affirmed.