Case ID: ga-app_23/html/0736-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10182.
    DeLoach et al. v. Kennedy, sheriff, for use, etc.
    Decided May 14, 1919.
    Complaint; from city court of Reidsville—Judge Collins. August 13, 1918.
    
      C. L. Cowart, H. H. Elders, for plaintiff in error.
    
      H. C. Beasley, contra.
   Broyles, P. J.

1. Under the facts of the case, the discharge in bankruptcy of the principal upon the forthcoming bond did not release the sureties upon the bond, and was not a good' defense as to the sureties in the suit upon the bond. See, in this connection, Steinhauer & Wight Inc. v. Adair, 20 Ga. App. 733 (2) (93 S. E. 280), and authorities there cited; Collier on Bankruptcy (11th ed.), § 16, pp. 417, 420.

2. Under the above ruling, the court did not err in charging as complained of in the motion for a new trial; and the verdict for the plaintiff was authorized by the evidence.-

Judgment affirmed.

Bloodworth and Stephens, JJ., concur.