Case ID: ga_57/html/0350-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Warner, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John S. Goodman, plaintiff in error, vs. T. J. Fleming, defendant in error.
    1. A demurrer to a suit on a promissory note by the indorsee thereof, in his own name, on the ground that the re were no words of negotiability in the note, was properly overruled.
    2. A plea which set up agreements not contained in the note, and in contradiction thereof, was properly stricken.
    Promissory notes. Indorsement. Pleadings. Evidence. Before Judge Crawford. Harris Superior Court. April Term, 1876.
    Reported in the decision.
    L. L. Stanford, by brief, for plaintiff in error.
    James M. Mobley, by M. H. Blandford, for defendant.
   Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as indorsee of a promissory note without any negotiable words in it, against the defendant. At the trial of the case, the defendant demurred to the plaintiff’s declaration on the ground that the indorsee of a promissory note, without negotiable words in it, could not maintain an action thereon in his own name. The court overruled the objection, and the defendant excepted. The plaintiff then demurred to the defendant’s second plea which the court sustained, and the defendant excepted.

The question made by the first assignment of error was decided by this court, in the case of Cohen vs. Prater, 56 Georgia Reports, 203, adversely to the plaintiff in error in this case.

The plea of the defendant alleged that the note was given upon certain agreed terms and conditions not expressed in the note, and in contradiction thereof. There was no error in sustaining the plaintiff’s demurrer to the defendant’s plea.

Let the judgment of the court below be affirmed.