Hornsby v. Butts
Supreme Court of Georgia
Promissory notes. Pleadings. Consideration. Practice. Before Judge Bower. Worth superior court. October term, 1889. Beported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Butts sued Hornsby on a promissory note for two hundred dollars. Hornsby pleaded a total failure of consideration, alleging that the note was given for the county right in Dougherty and Mitchell counties of a patented cotton-planter; and that the plaintiff, as a part of the contract, and as part of the consideration thereof, agreed to furnish him within a reasonable time a perfect and complete model of said planter, and further agreed to arrange for a place where he could have the same manufactured, all of which the plaintiff failed and refused to do. After the evidence was…
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