Supreme Court of Georgia, 1898

Munroe v. Haas

Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided March 24, 1898 · Little

105 Ga. 468; 30 S.E. 654; 1898 Ga. LEXIS 552

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2 later published cases cite this decision.

Bozeman v. Brock (Ga. Ct. App. 1938)
Colt Co. v. Miller (Ga. Ct. App. 1923)

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Opinion of the Court

Little, J.

Where, upon the trial in a justice’s court of an action upon a promissory note signed by a husband and wife, there was affirmative and uncontradicted evidence that the latter, in signing, contracted as a surety only, which fact was known to the agent of the payee by whom the note was taken, a verdict against the wife was contrary to law, and the superior court erred in not setting it aside op. certiorari.

Judgment reversed.

All concurring, except Gobb, J., absent.

Certiorari. Before Judge Janes. Haralson superior Court. January term, 1897.

J3. S. Griffith, for plaintiff in error.

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