Blackstad Mercantile Co. v. J. W. Porter & Co.

This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellee to recover the sum of $144, the purchase price of goods sold and shipped by appellant on the written order of appellee. The trial in the justice court, in which the suit originated, resulted in a judgment in favor of the defendant, and upon appeal and trial de novo in tlie county court a like judgment was rendered.

In answer to plaintiff’s suit, wkicli was pleaded orally in the justice court, the defendant pleaded: “That the defendant was induced by fraud and the misrepresentations of the plaintiff and its agent to sign what he…