Court Opinion

ID: 5573113
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 01:16:55.817573+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:49.859946
License: Public Domain

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.