Case ID: ga_94/html/0675-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McDonald v. McDonald et al.
    
    The suit being founded upon a sealed note or single bond and brought within twenty years after the maturity of the instrument, and there being no plea of non est factum, and no evidence that the words “ witness my hand and seal ” were not a part of the instrument when executed, it was error to charge that if these words were inserted after the execution and without the knowledge or approval of the maker, the presumption of law is that it was paid.
    August 14, 1894.
    
      Judgment reversed,.
    
    Appeal. Before Judge Hunt. Henry superior court. October term, 1893.
    J. F. Wall, J. S. Boynton and Stewart & Daniel, for plaintiff. F. D. Dismuke and E. J. Reagan, contra.
    
   In March, 1892, suit was brought on a promissory note for $100, dated March 1,1878, and due ten months afterwards. No plea by defendant appears in the record, hut the defence seems to have heen payment. The note was under seal, and the words “ witness my hand and seal ” appeared to be in a different handwriting and in different colored ink from that in the body of the note. The verdict was for the defendant,and plaintiff’s motion for a new trial was overruled. The material ground of the motion appears from the head-note.