131 Ga. 54 | Ga. | 1908
(After stating the facts.) The court below did not err in allowing the plaintiff to dismiss its petition. The plaintiff’s petition is not merely the statutory proceeding to establish a lost deed. It contained allegations entitling it to certain equitable relief,, which was prayed for, and process was prayed for and issued. That being true, an order of dismissal upon petitioner’s own motion should not have been granted if the answer of the defendants, in addition to allegations purely responsive, set up matters which made a case entitling them to affirmative relief. This, however, we think it failed to do. The first five paragraphs of defendants’ answer, so far as they contain material averments, are purely responsive to the petition, and contain nothing which would prevent a dismissal. And, omitting matter which was totally immaterial in the remainder of the answer, it contained a vague attempt to set up facts to show title in defendants to an undivided one-half interest in the property in dispute. ' While defendants do allege that the title to an undivided one-half interest in the property is vested in them and that they are tenants in common with plaintiff, this allegation is nothing more than a conclusion; and when we look to the allegations of fact upon which this conclusion is
Judgment affirmed.