§ 9-11-104.Form of complaint on an account

Businesses that extend credit on a running tab — a supplier, a contractor, a service provider — often need to collect what a customer owes on the account itself, apart from any single invoice. This section shows how compact that complaint can be.

After the residency and jurisdiction allegation common to this article’s forms, the complaint states in one sentence that the defendant owes a stated sum “according to the account hereto annexed as Exhibit A.” The account itself, not narrative allegations in the complaint, carries the factual detail — the charges, credits, and running balance that add up to the amount claimed.

The closing demand mirrors the promissory-note form: judgment for the sum owed, interest, costs, and attorney fees where applicable. Compared to that note form, this one skips any recitation of dates or terms in the body of the complaint, relying instead on the attached account to do that work.

The $10,000 figure printed in the statute is a placeholder, not a limit — a plaintiff fills in the actual balance owed. As elsewhere in this article, the form illustrates one way to satisfy Georgia’s short, plain statement standard rather than dictating the only permissible wording.