DeKalb County v. Georgia Paperstock Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding agreement between current county commissions and the defendant “would not be binding on any subsequent board of county commissioners, and, therefore, would not be enforceable beyond the year in which it was made without the continued approval of such board of commissioners”
• damages imposed on county for breach of contract are not an indebtedness within the meaning of the Georgia constitution
• contract between the county and a private corporation was enforceable against the council that executed the contract but was not enforceable beyond the year it was entered without continued board approval or against subsequent councils
• “[I]t is no longer appropriate to construe the pleadings against the pleader, but they should be construed in the light most favorable to the pleader with all doubts resolved in the pleader’s favor even though unfavorable constructions are possible.”

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