34 Ga. App. 387 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1925
(After stating the foregoing facts.) We think the evidence authorized the verdict. A. T. Fuller sworn in behalf of the plaintiffs testified that as a representative of the plaintiffs and in exchange for the larger check he “receipted the invoice that Mr. Martin owed for $199.01” and that he “asked Mr. Martin about getting Mr. Brooks to make this ninety dollar check good,” and one “that had been turned down by the bank,” and that Martin assented; that he, Fuller, then carried the dishonored check to the defendant, Brooks, and “Mr. Brooks took the check, looked at it and said ‘All right.’ He [Brooks] then wrote a check for ninety dollars and- something,” and handed it to the witness, who in turn delivered it to Key & Townsend. Mr. Key, one of the members of the firm of Key & Townsend, testified, “We received these checks and accepted them in full payment of W. G. Martin’s account. That was at the time of the receipt of these checks. When we got the checks we wrote off Mr. Martin’s account. . . The goods we sold and for which these checks represented payment were goods that Key & Townsend sold to Mr. W. G. Martin out there. The account was about two weeks old.” It appears, from the evidence, that after the purchase from Martin had failed of consummation in accordance with the terms originally agreed upon, there was a meeting of his creditors. Mr. Key was present at this
The jury were amply authorized to find that it was the intention of the parties that the original debtor, Martin, should be released and discharged. The release of Martin was a sufficient consideration for the checks. The evidence sustained the verdict, and the court did not err in overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial. See, in this connection, Davis v. Tift, 70 Ga. 52; Russell v. Smith, 97 Ga. 287 (23 S. E. 5); Saul v. Southern Seating & Cabinet Co., 6 Ga. App. 843 (65 S. E. 1065); Carr v. Rountree, 9 Ga. App. 393 (71 S. E. 589); Harris v. Jones, 140 Ga. 768 (1) (79 S. E. 841).
Judgment affirmed.