Case ID: ga_135/html/0022-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Singer Sewing-Machine Company v. Johns.
    August 10, 1910.
    Trover. Before Judge Edwards. Paulding ^superior court. May 25, 1909.
    
      F. M. Richards. for plaintiff.
   Lumpkin, J.

Where one purchasing a sewing-machine entered into a ■written contract by which such purchaser stated that she received the machine, valued at $48, which she was to use with care, and' keep in like good order as when received, and for the use of which she agreed to . pay as rent $5 in cash and an old machine at the price of $4 on the delivery óf the agreement, and $3 per month thereafter, in an action by ■ the sewing-machine company to recover the machine, in • which the plaintiff elected to take a money verdict for the balance-due, it was error, to allow the defendant, over objection, to testify that the agreement was that she was to be allowed $16 for the old machine, there being no proper proceeding seeking to correct the written contract.

Judgment reversed.

Beck, J., absent. The other Justices concur.