Court Opinion

ID: 9564751
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:06:23.375693+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:38.942437
License: Public Domain

Deen, Judge,
concurring specially. “World Wide Computer Training” for whose account with Atlanta Newspapers the appellant entered into a written contract of suretyship, was not at that time nor has it since become a legal entity. At the time of the agreement it was a division of Insurance Systems, Inc., which later changed its name to Computer Services Corp. with World Wide Computer Training continuing as a division of the corporation. The corporation, insofar as it operated as World Wide Computer Training, was accordingly simply operating as a trade name, and the fact that the corporate name was changed is not, so far as this record shows, relevant to the suretyship contract.
I am of the opinion that under Code § 103-203, when the November 301 contract between Computer Services Corp. and Atlanta Newspapers was entered into for quantity advertising with surcharge provisions if the minimum space was not used, the result of which contract was to increase the volume of advertising many, many times, this was in fact a new contract, and it did increase the surety’s risk and subject him to greater liability without his consent, and he was therefore discharged.