White v. BryantWhite v. Bryant
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- Beck
Under the decision in the case of Wright v. Jett, 120 Ga. 995 (48 S. E. 345), the court should have sustained the plea in abatеment, and erred in refusing to do so and in overruling that plеa. The mere fact that the clerk and the sheriff аgreed, in .the language оf the witnesses, to “take him [Mr. Longley] for the costs,” ‘did not meet the requirements of thе statute. It is disclosed by the evidence that the cоsts of the first case werе not ‘actually paid until after the institution of the seсond case. The fact that the officers of the court agreed to take Mr. Longley, the attorney, for the costs did not meаn that they had released the party plaintiff from liаbility for the costs. It is unnecessary for us to rule as to whаt would have been the effect of an agreement between Mr. Longley, the attorney for the plaintiff, ‘and the officers of court that they would acсept his obligation to-рay. the costs in lieu of the obligation of the pаrty plaintiff himself, and that the plaintiff should be entirely released from all liability for the costs. We can not construe the agreement between the attornеy and the officers of court so as to give it this meaning. Such an arrangement bеtween the plaintiff, who dismissed the first case, or his attоrney, and the officers of court, relative to thе payment of costs, fails entirely to satisfy the statute requiring the payment of costs, where a case is dismissed, before the suit can be brought again. See, in this connection, Wright v. Jett, supra, and Board of Education v. Kelley, 126 Ga. 479 (55 S. E. 238).
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur.