5 Ga. App. 262 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1908
1. Suit on account, for materials furnished and work done, may be maintained although the agreement whereon the materials were furnished or the work was done be evidenced by a written contract. Chapman v. Conwell, 1 Ga. App. 212 (58 S. E. 137) ; Sparks Improvement Co. v. Jones, 4 Ga. App. 62 (60 S. E. 810) ; Johnson v. Quinn, 52 Ga. 485; Tumlin v. Bass Furnace Co., 93 Ga. 599 (20 S. E. 44). This is especially true in a justice’s court, where technical pleading is not required. Ga. So. Ry. Co. v. Barfield, 1 Ga. App. 203 (58 S. E. 236) ; Southern Express Co. v. Briggs, 1 Ga. App. 294 (57 S. E. 1066).
O. In a certiorari proceeding, the court should not dispose of the main case on the merits while a traverse of the magistrate’s return is pending. Phillips v. Atlanta, 78 Ga. 773 (3 S. E. 431). But where the traverse has been submitted to a jury and a verdict rendered against the traverse, and no motion for a new trial has been made and no