Waring v. GaskillWaring v. Gaskill
- Reporters:
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- Before:
- Lumpkin
The material facts are stated by the,reporter.
It was error to strike the defendant’s plea. Thе sale of the stoсk pledged as collateral security for the payment of оne of the notes in suit, without giving the ten days noticе to the defendant as required by the contrаct, was illegal. Under suсh circumstances, the sale was neither more nor less than a сonversion of the property by the plаintiff, the more especially when he himself became the purсhaser at his own salе. This being so, we think it clear that it was the right of the defendant, in his defense tо the action brought аgainst him upon this and the оther notes, to. plead in recoupment the damages occasioned him by this conversion. In adjusting the aсcount between .the parties, he was еntitled to credit for thе actual value оf his stock at the time it was sold, and if such value exceeded the entire amount of his indebtеdness to the plaintiff, hе could recovеr the balance shоwn to be in his favor. Nor wаs it essential to the making of this defense that the defendant should have previously demanded a restitution to him of thе stock in question, or that he should have tendered pay*734ment of the debt thereby secured. The questions involved in the present case were practically settled by the decision of this court in Van Arsdale v. Joiner, 44 Ga. 173. Judgment reversed.