Webster v. . Laws

1 Smith, C. J.

This action originating in the court of a justice of the peace and transferred by appeal to the superior court of Alexander, is for the recovery of the sum of eleven dollars, the price claimed to be due for a dun heifer sold to the defendants.

The defendants allege, in resisting the demand, the pendency of another suit between the parties for the same cause of action, when this suit was instituted, deny that any contract of purchase was made, and aver that the plaintiffs were not the owners of the property and could convey no title thereto. The legal sufficiency of these defences…