Crawford v. Sumerau, 37864
| Decision Date | 22 October 1959 |
| Docket Number | No. 2,No. 37864,37864,2 |
| Parties | P. B. CRAWFORD v. L. G. SUMERAU et al |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Sanders, Thurmond & Hester, Cornelius B. Thurmond, Jr., Augusta, for plaintiff in error.
Claud R. Caldwell, Samuel E. Tyson, Augusta, for defendants in error.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court
1. A demurrer which attacks a petition or a part thereof on the ground that it does not set forth a proper measure of damages is a special demurrer. This question cannot be reached by a mere general demurrer. Sikes v. Foster, 74 Ga.App. 350, 355, 39 S.E.2d 585; Daniell v. McGuire, 87 Ga.App. 491(2), 74 S.E.2d 378. A special demurrer being a critic must itself be free from imperfection and must, as it were, lay its finger on the very point. Douglas, Augusta & G. R. Co. v. Swindle, 2 Ga.App. 550, 59 S.E. 600; Alford v. Davis, 21 Ga.App. 820(4a), 95 S.E. 313. Accordingly, a special demurrer attacking the allegations of a petition which seeks a recovery for a breach of warranty of title of an automobile which demurrer merely alleges that the measure of damages set forth in an amendment to the petition is not the proper measure of damages but that the measure of damages set forth in the original petition is the proper measure of damages without showing how or wherein one is proper and the other not proper is not a sufficient special demurrer to raise the question as to the right of plaintiff to recover on the amount of damages set forth in the amendment. Accordingly, the trial court did not err in overruling the renewed demurrer of the defendant to the petition as amended, which judgment is one of the errors assigned in the bill of exceptions before this court.
2. Where, in an action for breach of warranty of title to an automobile the plaintiff alleged that the subject automobile which he had purchased from the defendant was a stolen automobile, it was error to admit, over timely objection as complained of in the bill of exceptions, evidence that a third party had been convicted in the United States District Court of Georgia of transporting across State lines a stolen motor vehicle of the same description as that involved in the suit to prove that the automobile in question was a stolen automobile. "The rule supported by the great weight of authority is to the effect that a judgment of conviction or acquittal rendered in a criminal prosecution cannot be given in evidence in a purely civil action, to establish the truth of the facts on which it was rendered.' * * * 31 A.L.R. 261, 262.' Padgett v. Williams, 82 Ga.App. 509, 513, 61 S.E.2d 676, 679, citing, also, many other authorities; and, see Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. O'Quin, ...
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