Bobby Johnson filed a quiet-title action concerning a residential property in Stockbridge, Georgia, alleging that an assignment of a security deed did not give Bank of America a valid interest in the property. The trial court dismissed the complaint with prejudice after considering the assignment and the underlying security deed attached by the bank. The Court of Appeals reversed, and the Supreme Court of Georgia granted certiorari to consider whether Johnson had standing to challenge the assignment. The Supreme Court did not decide that standing question because Johnson’s concessions and the pleadings made it unnecessary. Instead, the Court held that the trial court properly dismissed the complaint on another ground: Johnson had acknowledged the security deed and the recorded assignment, and his allegations did not state a viable quiet-title claim against the bank. The Court therefore reversed the Court of Appeals’ judgment and left the dismissal in place. The opinion expressly reserved the broader standing issue for another case. All the Justices concurred.