Zorn v. Murray

56 S.E. 454, 127 Ga. 389, 1907 Ga. LEXIS 275

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: January 17, 1907
• Status: Published

Opinion

Lumpkin, J.

1. While the petition in this ease ma.y have set out an equitable cause of action (Worthy v. Tate, 44 Ga. 152; Gilmore v. Wells, 78 Ga. 187; Brooks v. Stroud, 111 Ga. 875; Brown v. Bonds, 125 Ga. 833), yet under the evidence, especially that tending to show that the petitioner had attorned to the defendant as his landlord, and had given and paid notes for the rent of the premises involved in the controversy, there was no abuse of discretion on the part of the presiding judge in refusing an injunction to prevent the landlord from proceeding to dispossess him as a tenant holding over, even if the evidence might have ' authorized him to grant it, and to consolidate the different suits under the equitable petition. Brown v. Bonds, supra; Bullard v. Hudson, 125 Ga. 393; Willis v. Harrell, 118 Ga. 906; House v. Oliver, 123 Ga. 784.

Submitted July 18, 1906. Decided January 17, 1907.

Petition for injunction. Before Judge Spence. Turner superior court. April 10, 1906.

11. G. McKenzie and,, Whipple & McKenzie, for plaintiff. James H. Pate, for defendant.

2. The case of National Bank v. Cariton, 96 Ga. 469, did not involve any question of landlord and tenant.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Fish, 0. J., absent.