30 Ga. 836
Decided June 15, 1860
Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1860-06-15
Complaint, from Sumter county. Tried before Judge Allen, at April Term, 1860. The plaintiff in error brought this action to recover the sum of $350 00, alleged to be the balance due him on an account for a negro slave sold by plaintiff to defendant.
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Decided 1860-06-15
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1941
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¶1By the Court.
¶2delivering the opinion.
¶3The non-suit was awarded in this case when the idea that the plaintiff’s own proof showed that he had been fully paid. The payment of the seventy dollars to the agent of the plaintiff by simply acquitting the agent of a debt of that amount which he owed to the defendant, was no payment to the plaintiff. A payment cannot be made to an agent who is known to be such by acquittances of the agent’s personal debts.
¶4Judgment reversed.