43 Ga. 252 | Ga. | 1871
This case comes before the Court upon the judgment of the Court below sustaining the demurrers filed to the sufficiency of the pleas. It appears by the record that suit was instituted in Schley county, by G. W. Mott, against certain parties, principals, and J. M. Gay, as security, upon a promissory note given by them to Mott. At the trial, Gay, by his attorney, pleaded that he was not indebted, etc., and that there is and was no consideration coming to or from this defendant, in the signing by this defendant, because he says that the note had been executed and delivered by the said principals and accepted by Mott, and was complete and entire before it was signed by him as security. The amended plea contains substantially the same averments. After striking the pleas the case went to the jury, who found for the plaintiff the principal sum due, and the question now before this Court is, whether by demurrer admitting the truth of the facts alleged in the plea, the judgment of the Court thereon sustaining such demurrer, was or was not erroneous. The general proposition that, to render one responsible for the debt of another, there must be a new consideration passing between the parties, and that the consideration between the original parties to the previous agreement is not sufficient, is a well recognized principle of law that does not need authority to support it; and where the fact of the signature
Judgment affirmed.