Court Opinion

ID: 5618421
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 04:26:39.158502+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:19.359958
License: Public Domain

Stephens, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The only evidence tending to establish a contract between Clary and the bank, releasing Clary from his obligation as surety upon the note, is Clary’s testimony as to his conversation with Barksdale, the cashier of the bank. Taking Clary’s testimony most strongly against him (as must be done, since he is a party to the ease), it must be construed as stating that in this conversation Barksdale informed him that Burdett “had endorsed” the note, and that Barksdale “had taken Burdett on the note” as a substituted surety for Clary. This conversation constituted no contract between the bank and Clary. It can .prove no more than that the bank, through *536Barksdale, had already made an agreement with Burdett whereby Bnrdett was to be taken as a substituted surety for Clary. Barks-dale merely stated what he had already done. He made no promise to Clary, and since Clary had made no promise to the bank nor had performed any act for the bank, Barksdale, in stating that he had put Burdett’s name upon the note, accepted no act or promise of Clary.
There being no evidence authorizing a jury to find that Clary had a contract with the bank by which he was released as a surety upon the note, the verdict for him was unauthorized.

Judgment reversed.

Jenkins, P. J., and Bell, J., concur.