Harris v. Paulk

Harris sued Paulk in an action of complaint, alleging that the latter, moved by a good consideration set forth in the petition, approached him, and, after certain negotiations, assumed individually certain indebtedness due by one Thompson to the plaintiff, the plaintiff agreeing to release Thompson from the indebtedness. The contract, as set up in the petition, was identical in general details with the one passed upon by this court in Evans v. Griffin, 1 Ga. App. 327 (57 S. E. 921), and the petition was not demurrable for any reason.

Upon the trial the plaintiff did not prove his case as laid.…