Case ID: ga-app_7/html/0322-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2183.
    Krauss v. Flournoy.
    Complaint; from city court of Brunswick — E. C. Butts, judge pro hac vice. August 2, 1909.
    Submitted December 8, 1909.
    Decided January 21, 1910.
    ' Ernest Dart, for plaintiff in error. Bonnet <& Conyers, contra.
   Powell, J.

Where one sued upon promissory notes relies, for his defense, upon a failure of the consideration, and the evidence shows that the failure of consideration has not been total, he must, in-order to au- - thorize any diminution of the plaintiff’s recovery, introduce evidence showing the extent of the failure. Merely to prove that there has ' been a partial failure of consideration, without giving the jury any facts from-which they could calculate the extent, of the failure, is not sufficient. Where the defendant in such a case fails to make out his defense, it is permissible for the court to direct a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. Judgment affirmed.