Case ID: ga-app_38/html/0783-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18907.
    Mathis et al. v. Shaw.
    Decided November 17, 1928.
    
      M. B. Eubanks, for plaintiff in error. W. J. Nunnally, contra.
   Bell, J.

Where two persons separately owning various articles of personalty sell them jointly for a lump sum, the sellers jointly own the debt against the buyer for the purchase-money and may bring a joint suit against him for its recovery. Bank of Oglethorpe v. Brooks, 33 Ga. App. 84 (7) (125 S. E. 600); Civil Code (1910), § 5516. Under the evidence, there was no error in directing the verdict in favor of the plaintiff.

Judgment affirmed.

Jenkins, P. J., and Stephens, J., eoneur.