Case Name: Grovenstein, Executor, vs. Brewer
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 367
Docket Number: 
Parties: Grovenstein, Executor, vs. Brewer.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 367–367

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.