114 Ga. 307 | Ga. | 1901
Westbrooks brought an action against Mrs. Carrie King, to foreclose a mortage on real estate executed by the defendant, and to recover judgment on a promissory note to secure the payment of which the mortgage had been given. The defendant pleaded that a portion of the debt represented by the promissory note sued on was her husband’s, and that that part of the debt which was hers had been fully paid. The case went to trial upon this issue, and there was evidence both for and against the conten
It does not appear affirmatively that the objection made to these interrogatories was filed with the interrogatories before the issuing of the commission. If the objection was not in fact so filed, it should not have been so considered. Franks v. Gress Lumber Co., 111 Ga. 87. But, irrespective of this question, we do not think the interrogatories were subject to the objection that they were leading. In the case just referred to will be found a full discussion upon the subject of leading interrogatories, and numerous authorities cited; it being ruled that an interrogatory to be objectionable as leading must suggest the answer to the witness. We do not think the questions propounded in the present case were subject to
judgment reversed.