Court Opinion

ID: 9844301
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:00:36.8451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:32.200929
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Felton, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment and in all of the rulings of the majority except the ruling in Division 5. I think the court erred in giving the charge excepted to and the judgment should be reversed for this additional reason. The court erred in charging Code § 20-306 which reads: “If there be a valid consideration for the promise, it matters not from whom it moves; the promisee may sustain his action though a stranger to the consideration.” This Code section does not fit the issues or facts in this case. There is no evidence that Mrs. Potts received any direct benefit from anything the plaintiff did. What he did was for the benefit of a corporation in which Mrs. Potts held a one-third interest in stock, which corporation was later converted into a partnership of which Mrs. Potts was a member. The plaintiff testified that the notes were given by Mrs. Potts for Lee Myers’ interest. The only reasonable construction of this testimony is that Lee Myers owned an interest for which he was under obligation to pay the plaintiff. There is no evidence that Myers consented to the substitution of Mrs. Potts for him or that the plaintiff released Lee Myers from the obligation. There was therefore no benefit which flowed to Mrs. Potts for the signing of the notes nor was there a detriment to the plaintiff from a release of Myers, or otherwise. Gibson v. Kyle, 46 Ga. App. 295 (167 SE 547); Wright v. Threatt, 146 Ga. 778 (3) (92 SE 640), and cases cited.