Case ID: ga-l-rep_1/html/0367-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hall, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Grovenstein, Executor, vs. Brewer.
    Debt from Effingham. Evidence. Contracts. Promissory Notes. (Before Judge Adams.)
    J. G. & D, H. Clark, for plaintiff in error.
    Lester & Ravenel, for defendant.
   Hall, J.

Where suit was brought on an instrument under seal which bound the defendant in a certain manner and a certain time to pay the plaintiff for certain timber, and pending the cause the plaintiff died and his executor was made a party; and where, on the trial the instrument sued on was tendered in evidence, together with an account of the timber cut and the amount due therefor and a receipt written thereon for “payment in full up to date, including a note given on twenty days’ time” and signed by the decedent, and also a note for the amount shown to be due by the account;'and where it was shown that the account and receipt except the signature was in the handwriting of the defendant, and that the note bore his signature:

Held that the note was admissible in evidence to show that the amount for which it was given had not been paid-

Judgment reversed.