Mims v. Johnson

• Decision Date: 24 January 1911
• Docket Number: 2,508.
• Citation: 70 S.E. 139,8 Ga.App. 850
• Parties: MIMS v. JOHNSON.
• Court: Georgia Court of Appeals

70 S.E. 139

8 Ga.App. 850

MIMS v. JOHNSON.

No. 2,508.

Court of Appeals of Georgia

January 24, 1911

On Motion for Rehearing, February 22, 1911.

Syllabus by the Court.

Where both parties to a cause consent that the court direct a verdict, though each moves that it be directed in his own favor, neither party can complain that the court erred in directing a verdict, though the losing party may except upon the ground that the verdict which was directed is erroneous.

One who, in his affidavit of illegality, alleges that the bond which was the basis of the judgment against him was signed by him in the case in question, is estopped thereafter to deny such admission.

The defendant having withdrawn all of the grounds of his affidavit of illegality save one, the merits of the antecedent rulings of the court on the demurrer to those grounds of the illegality which were withdrawn became immaterial.

The evidence demanded the verdict rendered.

Error from City Court of Baxley; V. E. Padgett, Judge.

Action between Alexander Mims and J. L. Johnson, Jr. From the judgment, Mims brings error. Affirmed.

J. H Thomas, J. W. Quincey, and Parker & Highsmith, for plaintiff in error.

W. W Bennett, Levi O'Steen, and W. H. Watson, for defendant in error.

RUSSELL J.

Judgment affirmed.

On Motion for Rehearing.

In Webb v. Pope, 118 Ga. 627, 45 S.E. 478, it was held that if an attachment is sued out by C. against A. and B., and a replevy bond is given conditioned to pay to the plaintiff the amount of the judgment and costs that C. might recover against A., and the plaintiff recovers no judgment against A individually, but recovers only a judgment against A. and B jointly, fi. fa. cannot be issued on that judgment against the surety on the bond. In this case a bail trover suit was instituted against two defendants. One of them desired to replevy the property, and gave a bond conditioned to redeliver the property, or pay the eventual condemnation money in the case (not merely to pay the amount of the judgment against the particular defendant). It is true that the case was not fully described in the bond, but it was conceded in the pleading and in the proof that the bond was given in the case on which the judgment was rendered. We think the distinction between the Webb Case, so strongly relied on by the plaintiff in error, and the case at bar, is plain. The difference in the conditions of the two bonds is...