Case Name: Butler & Company v. McCall
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1904-02-13
Citations: 119 Ga. 503
Docket Number: 
Parties: Butler & Company v. McCall.
Judges: All the Justices concur, except Simmons, C. J., absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 119
Pages: 503–503

Head Matter:
Butler & Company v. McCall.
Argued January 25,
Decided February 13, 1904.
Complaint on note. Before Judge Mitchell. Colquitt superior court. April 7, 1903.
Shipp & Kline, for plaintiffs m error.
J. G. & J. F. McGall, by Z. D. Harrison, contra.

Opinion:
Candler, J.
The consideration of a contract is always open to inquiry in a suit for its enforcement. The answer of the defendants as amended, setting up that the note sued on was for the purchase-price of certain sawmill timber, that part of the land conveyed had no timber on it at all, that as to other portions a paramount outstanding title existed in other parties, and that the defendants had never been in possession thereof, was good as a plea of failure of consideration, and should not have been stricken on demurrer.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur, except Simmons, C. J., absent.