Cox v. Fletcher & Adams

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Cox v. Fletcher & Adams

63 S.E. 61, 5 Ga. App. 297, 1908 Ga. App. LEXIS 102

CourtCourt of Appeals of Georgia

DecidedDecember 8, 1908

Docket1410

StatusPublished

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Cox v. Fletcher & Adams, 63 S.E. 61, 5 Ga. App. 297, 1908 Ga. App. LEXIS 102 (Ga. Ct. App. 1908).

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Powell, J.

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Some of the points involved in this record are controlled by the case of Cox v. Adams, ante, 296 (63 S. E. 60). A summary lien foreclosure must contain every allegation necessary to show a right-to the action in that form; it is to be strictly construed. Mabry v. Judkins, 66 Ga. 732; Howell v. Atkinson, 3 Ga. App. 58 (59 S. E. 316). Whether a person is to be entitled to a lien as a laborer is to be determined by the contract of employment, and not merely by what he actually did after being employed. Howell v. Atkinson, supra. A superintendent and general manager of a sawmill is prima facie not a common laborer. The words “superintendent- and general manager” denote such -a degree of discretion and. necessity for the exercise of mental functions as to distinguish the person so designated from a common laborer whose work is-chiefly manual. The motion to dismiss the foreclosure should have prevailed; and the judge of the superior court therefore did not err in sustaining the certiorari. Judgment affirmed.

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Powell, J.

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Some of the points involved in this record are controlled by the case of Cox v. Adams, ante, 296 (63 S. E. 60). A summary lien foreclosure must contain every allegation necessary to show a right-to the action in that form; it is to be strictly construed. Mabry v. Judkins, 66 Ga. 732; Howell v. Atkinson, 3 Ga. App. 58 (59 S. E. 316). Whether a person is to be entitled to a lien as a laborer is to be determined by the contract of employment, and not merely by what he actually did after being employed. Howell v. Atkinson, supra. A superintendent and general manager of a sawmill is prima facie not a common laborer. The words “superintendent- and general manager” denote such -a degree of discretion and. necessity for the exercise of mental functions as to distinguish the person so designated from a common laborer whose work is-chiefly manual. The motion to dismiss the foreclosure should have prevailed; and the judge of the superior court therefore did not err in sustaining the certiorari. Judgment affirmed.

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63 S.E. 61, 5 Ga. App. 297, 1908 Ga. App. LEXIS 102, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/cox-v-fletcher-adams-gactapp-1908.

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