Butler Coal & Grain Co. v. Roy

This case was submitted to the trial judge upon what is styled an agreed statement of facts. It is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for goods sold by it to the defendant. The defendant’s answer was a general denial and a special answer setting up the fact that the defendant was a minor at the time the *144contract or contracts were made with the plaintiff and that he desires to avoid his voidable contract or contracts made with the plaintiff during said minority. The defendant admits having received merchandise from the plaintiff in the sum stated in its declaration…