Court Opinion

ID: 9850590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:59:40.879043+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:40.038796
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Quillian, Judge,
concurring specially. I concur in the opinion reversing the trial court’s direction of a verdict. I am constrained to do so because of the binding effect of Schofield v. Jones, 85 Ga. 816 (11 SE 1032); Blackburn v. Lee, 137 Ga. 265 (73 SE 1); Magid v. Beaver, 185 Ga. 669 (196 SE 422); and similar cases.
*853In the Schofield case, 85 Ga. 816, 820, supra, it is held that where “the creditor, the wife and the husband combine to give mere color by writing to dealings really intended by all of them to be between the creditor and the husband, and the credit is not really extended to the wife, but to him, then she will be at liberty to repudiate her apparent debt, for the reason that it is at bottom not her own, but his.” Accepting and therefore applying this rule, there was sufficient evidence, though meager, to present a jury question as to whether the president of the plaintiff corporation had knowledge that the defendant signed the contract, not as a principal, but as surety for her husband.