185 Ga. 27 | Ga. | 1937
The contract in this case imposed on Slaten the obligation to make the payments specified therein, without condition, except that in the event of his death without being in default, “a certificate of conveyance . . shall be delivered at once, and the remaining installments canceled and satisfied.”
In Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus R. Co. v. Warthen, 98 Ga. 599 (25 S. E. 988), it was held: “Mere statements or promises by the company’s officers or agents, made before the contract of subscription was signed, to the effect that the railroad would be built upon a certain line, and a failure to so build it after the contract was executed, would not constitute a fraud upon the subscriber or afford him any ground for avoiding payment, there being no contention that anything was omitted from the writing which was intended to be inserted therein.” In Roberts v. Investors Savings Co., 154 Ga. 45 (113 S. E. 398), Mrs. Roberts purchased a house and lot, giving notes for part of the purchase-price and receiving a bond'for title from the vendor. Suit was filed by the transferee of the vendor on two of these notes. Mrs. Roberts in her answer to the petition admitted the execution of the notes sued on, but alleged that they were obtained from her through misrepresentation and deceit practiced upon her by EL W. Nicholes, the agent of Mrs. Lula M. Nicholes, the vendor; that EL W. Nicholes, acting as such agent, agreed, at the time the defendant was inveigled into signing and delivering said notes to him, to make described improvements on the house located on the lot purchased, and that he failed and refused to do so, for which reason she has refused to pay said notes. The judge struck the answer on demurrer, as failing to set forth an issuable defense, and directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. In affirming that ruling the Supreme Court held: “The rule which permits parol proof in cases of apparent incompleteness in written statements of the obligations of the parties, denies parol proof, variant from the written terms, which imposes additional and other terms dependent upon a prior or contemporaneous parol agreement. . . All previous negotiations are merged in the subsequent written contract, and an additional obligation can not be grafted thereon by parol testimony. Where one buys real estate from another, executes notes which recite that they are given for part of the purchase-money of certain described real estate, and takes from the seller a bond for title, which recites the full purchase-money to be paid, that the purchaser is to pay off certain incumbrances on
The allegation in the answer that the defendant had been relieved from payment of the balance due on the contract, by reason of an agreement with an officer of the plaintiff, does not aver any consideration moving to the plaintiff, and such agreement would be ineffectual, since “A consideration is essential to a contract which the law will enforce.” Code, § 20-301.
The pleadings purporting to allege violation, by the payee in the contract sued on, of the requirement of the law that persons or corporations doing business in an assumed or trade-name shall register their true names with the clerk of the superior court, are set out above. Nowhere'is it alleged that the contract entered into between the defendant and College Park Cemetery Company was made with the Cemetery Company in any trade-name. It appears from the copy of the contract attached to the petition as an exhibit, and not denied by the defendant, that the parties to the contract
This court, and not the Court of Appeals, has jurisdiction of the writ of error in this ease, under the decision in Oliver-McDonald Co. v. Swift, 157 Ga. 102 (120 S. E. 543).
The court did not err in rendering judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and in overruling the defendant’s motion for new trial.
Judgment affirmed.