9 Ga. App. 811 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1911
George W. Tiedeman brought suit against J. H.
1. In support of his first defense the defendant testified that he had delivered a draft on the Southern Pine Company of Savannah for $66, drawn to his order, by D. A. Hodges, to the agent of the plaintiff, who accepted the draft as a credit on the account. The jury were fully authorized, under the evidence, to believe that the agent of the plaintiff who accepted the first draft from the defendant did so simply for the purpose of collecting it and applying the proceeds on the account. The undisputed evidence is that this agent had no authority to receive anything in payment of the account of his principal except the money.
2. It certainly will not be presumed that the agent had authority to accept the drafts in payment of the debt due his principal. The defendant failed absolutely to prove the two. defenses relied upon. On the contrary, the evidence clearly shows that the drafts were presented by the plaintiff to the Southern Pine Company, the drawee, which refused to pay them, on the ground that the •drawer had no funds in its hands with which to pay them. While it
3. The second defense ■ relied upon is that the defendant had indorsed the drafts, and as indorser thereof was entitled to notice of their dishonor, and that a failure to give this notice to him relieved him from the payment of the debt which he owed to the plaintiff. Of course, there is no merit in this defense. If the suit had been against him on the drafts as indorser thereof, he would not have been entitled to any notice of dishonor. Neither the drawer nor the indorser of a domestic bill of exchange- not to be negotiated nor left for collection at a chartered bank is entitled to notice of dishonor. Bank of Richland v. Nicholson, 120 Ga. 622 (48 S. E. 240). It seems to us that the verdict in this case, under the evidence, is so strongly supported, and the exceptions of law are so barren of merit, that the judgment refusing a new trial should be' affirmed, and ten per cent, damages awarded against the plaintiff in error for the delay consequent upon the suing out of the writ of error. Judgment affirmed, with damages.