Gould v. Bourgeois

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

This suit was upon a promissory note made by the defendant. The defence was the want or failure of consideration.

The city council of Holly Beach City proposed to build a breakwater. The defendant was an applicant for a contract to do the work, and prepared and sent to the city council an ■agreement with the city to that effect. Members of the city council sent word to the defendant that the city had already •entered into a contract for the building of the breakwater with Gould & Downs; that these parties could not fulfill their contract, and…