Pettaway v. City of Albany

• Decision Date: 10 April 1962
• Docket Number: No. 3,No. 39482,39482,3
• Citation: Pettaway v. City of Albany, 125 S.E.2d 568, 105 Ga.App. 739 (Ga. App. 1962)
• Parties: Cleo PETTAWAY v. CITY OF ALBANY et al
• Court: Georgia Court of Appeals

Page 568

125 S.E.2d 568

105 Ga.App. 739

Cleo PETTAWAY v. CITY OF ALBANY et al.

No. 39482.

Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 3.

April 10, 1962.

Burt & Burt, Albany, for plaintiff in error.

Smith, gardner, Kelley & Wiggins, Asa D. Kelley, Jr., Frank H. Lowe, Jr., Albany, for defendants in error.

Syllabus Opinion by the Court

EBERHARDT, Judge.

1. A suit by a widow to recover the full value of the life of her husband, alleged to have been fatally injured by negligent acts of the defendant city, is a suit for damages arising from injuries to the person. Atlantic V. & W. R. Co. v. McDilda, 125 Ga. 468, 54 S.E. 140, 114 Am.St.Rep. 240; Cantrell v. Davis, 176 Ga. 745, 169 S.E. 38; Ivester v. Southern Ry. Co., 61 Ga.App. 364, 6 S.E.2d 214. See Lundy v. City Council of Augusta, 51 Ga.App. 655, 659(4), 181 S.E. 237.

2. Where it does not appear from the petition itself that the ante litem notice, required by Code § 69-308, was given within the time therein provided, the city's general demurrer was properly sustained. Saunders v. City of Fitzgerald, 113 Ga. 619, 38 S.E. 978; Newton v. City of Moultrie, 37 Ga.App. 631(3), 141 S.E. 322; Peek v. City of Albany, 101 Ga.App. 564, 114 S.E.2d 451; City of Atlanta v. Barrett, 102 Ga.App. 469, 471, 116 S.E.2d 654.

Judgment affirmed.

CARLISLE, P. J., and RUSSELL, J., concur.