Case ID: ga-app_10/html/0698-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pottle, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3762.
    McFarland v. Lee, for use, etc.
    Decided March 6, 1912.
    Action on bond; from city court of Lumpkin — Judge Nicholson presiding.
    September 1, 1911.
    
      T. T. James, for plaintiff in error. Tomlinson Fort, contra.
   Pottle, J.

1. Exception to a judgment refusing to allow an amendment to an answer can not properly be made in a motion for a new trial.

2. In a suit upon a forthcoming' bond, the only question to be decided is whether or not there has been a breach of the bond. No issue can properly be raised as to the title of the property involved. Rowland v. Page, 4 Ga. App. 269 (61 S. E. 148).

3. The evidence authorized a finding' that no claim had been interposed. This being so, the bond sued upon and which was given as the foundation of a claim is to be treated as a voluntary obligation. A recital in the bond that the principal obligor claims the property is not evidence that a claim has actually been interposed, but only that the obligor intended to interpose a claim. Jones v. Kendrick, 94 Ga. 645 (21 S. E. 831).

4. The evidence authorized a verdict that there had been a breach of the bond by ,the defendant. Judgment affirmed.