52 Ga. 326 | Ga. | 1874
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover the amount of unpaid stock due the plaintiff by defendant’s testator. It appears from the record that the defendant’s testator subscribed, on the 28th of September, 1860, for one hundred shares of the capital stock in the plaintiff’s company, subject to such future calls as might be made by the directors of the company in pursuance of its charter; that a call was duly made on the defendants by the directors of said company for the payment of twenty per cent, of said subscription, amounting to the sum of $2,000 00, on the 1st of August, 1866, which defendants refused to pay; that a further call was made on the defendants for the payment of twenty-five per cent, of said subscription, amounting to the sum of $2,500 00, on the 20th of February, 1868, which the defendants refused to pay; that a further call was made on defendants to pay twenty per cent, of said subscription, amounting to the sum of $2,000 00, on the 10th of September, 1869, which they refused to pay; that suit was commenced by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover the amount due for said calls on said stock subscription, on the 31st of December, 1869; that subsequently, on the 19th of April, 1872, that suit was dismissed by the court, for failure of the plaintiff to file an affidavit of the payment of taxes, as required by the act of 1870, which judgment of dismissal was brought up to this court and affirmed ; that afterwards, to-wit: on the 11th of January, 1873, and within six months after the rendition of the judgment of this court affirming the judgment of dismissal, the suit on said claim was recommenced returnable to the then next term of the court. To this second action the defendants pleaded the statute of limitations of 1869, and also filed the plea of res adjudieata as to the dis
The case of the Macon and Augusta Railroad Company vs. Bass was cited by the defendant in error as being a decision of this court which should control the case now before us. That case was submitted to this court without argument, on fhe following agreed statement of facts, as appears from the ■original bill of exceptions in that case: “That the subscription was made before the 1st day of June, 1865, and that an action for the recovery of the same was begun on the ... day of December, 1869; .that said action was dismissed by the court on the ground that no affidavit of payment of taxes had been filed.” It was clearly apparent on the face of the bill of exceptions in that case that the right of action accrued to (the plaintiff prior to the 1st of June, 1865, and it was upon that statement of facts contained in the bill of exceptions that Jhe judgment of this court was rendered. It did not appear
"We therefore reverse the judgment of the court below in sustaining the defendant’s plea of the statute of limitations of 1869, and the plea of res adjudieuta to the plaintiff’s action, as set forth in the record. In relation to the plea of Confederate money, as that question was not argued before us, we express no opinion in regard to it.
Let the judgment of the court below be reversed.