Case Name: Brain v. Hill
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1940-02-24
Citations: 61 Ga. App. 756
Docket Number: 28089
Parties: Brain v. Hill.
Judges: ¡Stephens, V. J., and Felton, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 756–757

Head Matter:
28089.
Brain v. Hill.

Opinion:
Sutton, J.
Where one pays an indebtedness on a note on which he and another are. bound as coindorsers, he is subrogated to the rights of the payee, and is also entitled to contribution from the coindorser for one half of the amount so paid. Hull v. Myers, 90 Ga. 674 (16 S. E. 653); Bigby v. Douglas, 123 Ga. 635 (51 S. E. 606); Lamis v. Callianos, 57 Ga. App. 238 (194 S. E. 923). Under the law and the evidence in the present case the trial judge of the civil court' of Atlanta, before whom the case was tried without the intervention of a jury, was authorized to render judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of contribution sued for because of payments made on a note on which the plaintiff and defendant were indorsers. The appellate division of said court properly affirmed the judgment of the trial judge overruling the defendant's motion for new trial.
Decided February 24, 1940.
Scott Lay Jr., for plaintiff in error.
A. C. Corbett, contra.
Judgment affirmed.
¡Stephens, V. J., and Felton, J., concur.