Court Opinion

ID: 9586216
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:08:23.950221+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:25:36.528368
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Stolz, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur in the judgment of Division 1 and with Division 2 of the opinion.
The situation presented sub judice is one in which the plaintiff presented a claim on an open account. This is generally considered a liquidated claim. See Nisbet v. *83Lawson, 1 Ga. 275, 287; Bartee v. Andrews, 18 Ga. 407, 410; Roberts v. Prior, 20 Ga. 561, 562. Here, however, the defendant entered a plea of partial failure of consideration. At the trial of the case the jury found against the defendant’s plea and returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount sued for. Thus, the defendant’s attempt to convert a liquidated claim into one that was unliquidated, failed and the defendant must pay the interest authorized by law. Had the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff in less than the amount sued for, it would have found in favor of the plea of partial failure of consideration; the account then would have been unliquidated and interest allowed only from date of judgment.