88 Ga. App. 185 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1953
Under the state of the record and bill of exceptions in this case, we have for consideration only the question of whether the petition as finally amended set forth a cause of action as against the general demurrer. Code § 6-1607; Collins v. Carr, 111 Ga. 867 (1) (36 S. E. 959); Strickland v. Roe, 66 Ga. App. 571 (1) (18 S. E. 2d 567); Hall v. Davis, 75 Ga. App. 819, 820 (44 S. E. 2d 685).
As was said by Judge Parker speaking for this court in Vickers v. Georgia Power Co., 79 Ga. App. 456, 458 (54 S. E. 2d 152): “All that a plaintiff need allege to withstand the attack of a general demurrer is the factum of . . . [a] duty, whether [arising] by contract or otherwise, a violation of that duty, and damages resulting from that violation. 41 Am. Jur., Pleading, § 78.” In the instant case the allegations show simply the relationship of landlord and tenant between the plaintiff and the defendant, the defendant being the tenant, an agreement there
The trial court did not err in overruling the general demurrer to the petition as finally amended.
Judgment affirmed.