Case ID: ga_76/html/0838-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bland ford, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McWilliams vs. Lee, administrator.
    1. Suit was brought on a promissory note by Betts, as administrator of Samuel Lee, against McWilliams and S, J. Lee, as administra-
    
      tor of C. W. Lee, deceased, and judgment by default was rendered for the principal and interest due on the note against the defendants. S. J. Lee, as administrator, paid off the judgment, had it transferred to him, and proceeded by motion to have the surety-ship of his intestate for the other defendant entered of record and to obtain an order for the control of the judgment and execution. Issue was joined, and the record in the original case, when tendered in evidence, was objected to, because the judgment was not against S. J. Lee, as administrator, to be levied on the property of his intestate in his hands to be administered:
    
      Held, that the record was properly admitted, whether the judgment against the administrator was right or wrong, because it was the foundation of the proceeding; because it was a judgment rendered by default by the court against the defendants, and because, if McWilliams was the principal and Lee was his surety, it did not concern the former whether the judgment against the administrator of the latter was right or wrong.
    2. The verdict was supported by the evidence, and there was no error in refusing a new trial.
    Judgment affirmed.
    April 20, 1886.
   Bland ford, Justice.