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FARM SUPPLY CO. OF ALBANY v. COOK

43019.

116 Ga. App. 814 (1967)

159 S.E.2d 128

FARM SUPPLY COMPANY OF ALBANY, INC. v. COOK.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 16, 1967.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Swift, Pease, Davidson & Chapman, W. G. Scrantom, Jr., Burt & Burt, Hilliard P. Burt, for appellant.

Lee & Hitchcock, William S. Lee, for appellee.

EBERHARDT, Judge.

1. What is now Code § 20-701 has been in every Code, including the first: "The construction of a contract is a question of law for the court. Where any matter of fact is involved (as the proper reading of an obscurely written word), the jury should find the fact." It was the common law rule long before the first Code. A matter similar to an obscurely written word is the inclusion of an unfamiliar abbreviation. Holland v. Long &...

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