Home/Supreme Court of Georgia/National Life & Accident Insurance v. Lain

National Life & Accident Insurance v. Lain

179 S.E. 120, 180 Ga. 463, 1935 Ga. LEXIS 442
CourtSupreme Court of Georgia
DecidedMarch 12, 1935
DocketNo. 10461
StatusPublished
Cited by3 cases

This text of 179 S.E. 120 (National Life & Accident Insurance v. Lain) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Georgia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
National Life & Accident Insurance v. Lain, 179 S.E. 120, 180 Ga. 463, 1935 Ga. LEXIS 442 (Ga. 1935).

Opinion

Atkinson, Justice.

The words “attorney’s fees” as employed in section 3 of the act of 1933 (Ga. L. 1933, p. 290), amending- the act creating- the municipal court of Atlanta, considered in connection with section 1 of the act, refer to attorney’s fees that are ancillary to the main relief sought in a suit of which the court has jurisdiction, and are not confined to “contractual attorney’s fees as provided for in a promissory note or other written contract.”

All the Justices concur. Hendrix & Buchanan, for plaintiff in error. A. Walton Nall, Roberts & Nall, and E. B. Lovell, contra.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Related

General Assurance Corp. v. Roberts
90 S.E.2d 70 (Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1955)
Tate v. Industrial Life & Health Insurance
198 S.E. 303 (Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1938)
National Life & Accident Insurance v. Lain
179 S.E. 751 (Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1935)

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)
179 S.E. 120, 180 Ga. 463, 1935 Ga. LEXIS 442, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/national-life-accident-insurance-v-lain-ga-1935.