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National Acceptance Company v. Fulton National Bank

Court of Appeals of Georgia
Nov 3, 1966
152 S.E.2d 3 (Ga. Ct. App. 1966)

Opinion

41878.

DECIDED NOVEMBER 3, 1966.

Action on note. Fulton Superior Court. Before Judge Whitman.

Harmon Thackston, Nolan B. Harmon, G. William Thackston, Jr., for appellant.

Nall, Miller, Cadenhead Dennis, Theodore G. Frankel, Gerald A. Friedlander, Clarence C. Calhoun, Jr., for appellees.


This court in its previous opinion deplored the confusion, if not conflict, in judicial precedents deciding whether a contract in dispute was one of suretyship or guaranty. National Acceptance Co. v. Fulton Nat. Bank, 113 Ga. App. 517, 518 ( 148 S.E.2d 907). We relied upon the language of the Supreme Court in Greenwold Grift Co. v. Durham, 191 Ga. 586 ( 13 S.E.2d 346), wherein it stated: "An undertaking by which one induces the subsequent furnishing of goods to a third person . . . has been recognized as an independent contract of guaranty and not of suretyship. . . ." The Supreme Court now holds that in order to create a contract of guaranty there must be a "new, separate and independent consideration" flowing directly to the promisor.

Our judgment in this case having been reversed by the Supreme Court in Wolkin v. National Acceptance Co., 222 Ga. 487 ( 150 S.E.2d 831), we hereby vacate our judgment and enter another affirming the judgment of the trial court for the reasons stated by the Supreme Court in its opinion.

Judgment affirmed. Nichols, P. J., and Deen, J., concur.

DECIDED NOVEMBER 3, 1966.


Summaries of

National Acceptance Company v. Fulton National Bank

Court of Appeals of Georgia
Nov 3, 1966
152 S.E.2d 3 (Ga. Ct. App. 1966)
Case details for

National Acceptance Company v. Fulton National Bank

Case Details

Full title:NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY v. FULTON NATIONAL BANK OF ATLANTA et al

Court:Court of Appeals of Georgia

Date published: Nov 3, 1966

Citations

152 S.E.2d 3 (Ga. Ct. App. 1966)
114 Ga. App. 562

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