O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 23-2-75 (2019)

Offer to pay balance unnecessary

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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A petition for an accounting need not offer to pay a balance if found against the complainant.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3069; Code 1868, § 3081; Code 1873, § 3136; Code 1882, § 3136; Civil Code 1895,

§ 3995; Civil Code 1910, § 4592; Code 1933, § 37-307.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS The rule of this section applies to a petition filed for a general account and settlement of a copartnership. Wells v. Strange, 5 Ga. 22 (1848). Rule of this section applies to a petition filed for settlement of an account by a legatee, or distributee. Echols v. Almon, 77 Ga. 330, 1 S.E. 269 (1886).

Cited in MacKenzie v. Flannery & Co., 90 Ga. 590, 16 S.E. 710 (1892); Marietta Realty & Dev. Co. v. Reynolds, 189 Ga. 147, 5 S.E.2d 347 (1939); Bibb County v. Winslett, 191 Ga. 860, 14 S.E.2d 108 (1941).