Kent v. Consumers' Co

• Decision Date: 14 July 1933
• Docket Number: No. 22799.,22799.
• Citation: 170 S.E. 202,47 Ga.App. 213
• Parties: KENT. v. CONSUMERS' CO.
• Court: Georgia Court of Appeals

47 Ga.App. 213

170 S.E. 202

KENT.

v.CONSUMERS' CO.

No. 22799.

Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 1.

July 14, 1933.

Syllabus by Editorial Staff.

Error from Superior Court, Fulton County; G. H. Howard, Judge.

Action by Minnie Kent against the Consumers' Company.Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.

Affirmed.

Joseph D. Lewis and John R. Strother, both of Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.

McDaniel, Neely & Marshall and W. Neal Baird, all of Atlanta, for defendant in error.Syllabus Opinion by the Court.

GUERRY, Judge.

A petition by a mother in an action for damages on account of the negligent homicide of her minor child is fatally defective if it fails to allege both that she was at the time of the homicide dependent on the child and that the child contributed to her support.Clay v. Central of Ga. R. R. Co., 84 Ga. 345 (1), 10 S. E. 967;Central of Ga. Ry. Co. v. Swann, 19 Ga. App. 691 (1), 91 S. E. 1068;Smith v. Hatcher, 102 Ga. 158, 29 S. E. 162;Owens v. Anchor Duck Mills, 34 Ga. App. 315 (1), 129, S. E. 301;Western & Atlantic R. Co. v. Anderson, 34 Ga. App. 435, 129 S. E. 896.The petition in the present case failed to allege dependency, and there was no offer to amend to show dependency.The court did not err in sustaining the demurrer.Southern Ry. Co. v. Dickson, 138 Ga. 371, 75 S. E. 462.

Judgment affirmed.

BROYLES, C. J., and MacINTYRE, J., concur.