Case Name: ROBERT COLEMAN, vs. WILLIAM G. HARPER
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1819-06-12
Citations: 1 A.K. Marsh. 602
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBERT COLEMAN, vs. WILLIAM G. HARPER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 602–603

Head Matter:
12 June, 1819.
ROBERT COLEMAN, vs. WILLIAM G. HARPER.
On a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Chris« lian circuit court.
A lea im neaching- the consideration partially on-sustained. * ‘
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Opinion:
Judge Owsley
delivered the opinion of the court.
This writ of error is brought to reverse a judgment rendered against Coleman, «pon a demurrer to two pleas filed by him in an action of debt prosecuted by Harper in the court below.
The object of each plea is to question the consideration °f the Obligation upon which the suit is founded, We think, however, that neither of the pleas can he sus-twined.
The first cannot — because it impeaches the consideration partilly only.
And the second cannot — because it barely alledges (without staling in what wav) a failure of the consideration, A general denial of the obligation having been given un-on.any consideration, as the plaintiff must be presumed to llie consideration, would, no doubt, be good.
But a general averment of the consideration having fall- ⅛1, as the plaintiff cannot be presumed to know bow the failure happened, is too uncertain to require from him a replication.
Bibb for plaintiff in error.
The judgment of the court must, therefore, be affirmed with cost and damages.