Case ID: ga-app_13/html/0062-01.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

4848.
    Mangum et al. v. Manos.
    Decided July 8, 1913.
    Complaint; from city court of Atlanta — Judge Reid. March 15, 1913.
    
      John A. Boykin, for plaintiffs in error. W. 0. Wilson; contra.
   Pottle, J.

This was a suit against husband and wife as joint makers of a contract of lease. The wife pleaded that she signed the contract as surety for her husband. There was sufficient evidence to authorize a finding that she executed the contract as a principal. The trial judge, distinctly instructed the jury that under the law of this State, a married woman can not become security or bind her estate by any contract' of suretyship; and that if they should believe that the wife was a surety and not a principal upon the contract sued on, she would not be liable, and they should so find. This instruction sufficiently covered the issue involved; and if a more specific charge was desired, it should have been requested in- writing. The evidence authorized the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.