82 Ga. App. 647 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1950
The evidence showed that the corporate powers granted the Hedrick Construction Company are: “ (a) to carry on and conduct a general contracting and constructing business including the designing, constructing, enlarging, repairing, remodeling or otherwise engaging in any work upon building roads, sidewalks, highways, bridges or manufacturing plants; and to engage in iron, steel, wood, brick, concrete, stone, cement, masonry, and earth construction, and to execute contracts or to receive assignments of contracts therefor, or relating thereto; also to manufacture and furnish the building materials and supplies connected therewith, (b) To have all the powers and enjoy all of the privileges enumerated in 22-1827 and 22-1870 of the Code of Georgia and all of the other powers and privileges enumerated in Chapters 22-18 and 22-19 of said Code and all of the powers and privileges therein. . The evidence also showed that the Hedrick Construction Company had only three employees and that its business was to buy real estate, sell real estate, to sell houses bought, to employ independent contractors to build houses for the company to sell; to furnish material to the subcontractors for the construction of houses for it, etc. The treasurer of the company testified as follows: “We have been in the business of buying real estate and selling houses that have been built. Sometimes the houses have already been constructed and we sell those, and sometimes we buy vacant lots and we have houses built on those lots. We have never during the time that we have
The court did not err in dismissing the affidavit of illegality and in ordering that the execution proceed.
Judgment affirmed.