Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 2. ACTIONS GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-2-4. Pursuit of consistent or inconsistent remedies.

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A plaintiff may pursue any number of consistent or inconsistent remedies against the same person or different persons until he shall obtain a satisfaction from some of them.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Civil Code 1895, § 4945; Civil Code 1910, § 5522; Code 1933, § 3-114; Ga. L. 1967, p. 226, § 45.

Law reviews

For article discussing origin and validity of Georgia statute concerning election of remedies, see 14 Ga. L. Rev. 239 (1980). For article, “Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel: New Defenses in Construction Litigation?,” see 21 Ga. St. B.J. 108 (1985). For annual survey on commercial transportation, see 73 Mercer L. Rev. 47 (2021).

Other notes

History of Section.: This Code section is derived from the decision in Equitable Life Ins. Co. v. May, 82 Ga. 646, 9 S.E. 597 (1889).

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