Case ID: ga_74/html/0405-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandford, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hawkins et al. vs. Gibson, Son & Company.
    1. Where one agreed to consign goods to another, who was to sell them on commission or per cent, so that they should net the consignor certain prices, and when sold the amount thus charged was to be paid over to the consignor within-days, or deposited in a named bank, the meaning of such contract was that the money was to be paid within a reasonable time, or such time as the parties might thereafter agree upon. Therefore, where the consignee made a note with a surety thereto, and deposited it as a collateral security for the performance of this contract, the fact that, after the consignee was in default, the consigpor took from him several promissory notes due at different times for the amount of his indebtedness, and also a mortgage to secure the same, did not release the surety on the collateral note.
    2. The other questions in this case were decided when it was formerly before this court, as reported in 69 6a., 354.
    Judgment affirmed.
    November 11, 1884.
   Blandford, Justice.