Case ID: ga-app_6/html/0425-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1845.
    Chicago Portrait Company v. O’Neal et al.
    
    Action on bond, from city court of Tifton — Judge Eve. March 13, 1909.
    Submitted June 10,
    Decided July 6, 1909.
    
      J. B. Murrow, J. J. Murray, for plaintiff.
    
      Pulwood & Murray, for defendants.
   Powell, J.

The admissions of a principal are prima facie evidence against his sureties, if made pending the relationship and concerning the transaction as to which the suretyship exists. Stephens v. Crawford, 1 Ga. 574 (44 Am. D. 680); Dobbs v. Justices, 17 Ga. 625; 2 Wigmore on Evidence, §1077; 1 Enc. Ev. 586, 587; 27 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2d ed.), 456. Judgment reversed.