Case Name: C. S. Greer v. H. G. Gardner
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1873-10-09
Citations: 7 Ky. Op. 172
Docket Number: 
Parties: C. S. Greer v. H. G. Gardner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Opinions, containing the unreported opinions of the Court of Appeals
Volume: 7
Pages: 172–172

Head Matter:
C. S. Greer v. H. G. Gardner.
Bills and Notes — Failure of Consideration.
Where a note was given for a promised loan of money which was never realized, there is a failure of consideration.
APPEAL PROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT.
October 9, 1873.
Bate, Wright, for appellant.
Underwood, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Judge Peters:
This court said, in the opinion delivered when this case was here on a former appeal, that if the note sued on was not given in consideration of a sale of the note on the Thomases, but only for a promised loan of the money expected to be paid by Thomas, which was never realized, then there was a failure of consideration. This was certainly a correct exposition of the legal proposition involved, and although the two instructions given for appellee, and not complained of, are not in as concise language as they might have been, and may be somewhat obscured by the multiplicity of words. Still we incline to the opinion that said iústructions embody the proposition of law as enunciated in the opinion referred to, and therefore afñrm the judgment.