Club Aluminum Co. v. Woodard

Club Aluminum Company sued J. A. Woodard for money alleged to be due it under a contract of guaranty. The defendant’s answer, denying all the material allegations of the petition, was not challenged by demurrer or otherwise. Subsequently to the first term after service was perfected, the defendant, by leave of the court and by way of an amendment to his answer, ‘over the objection of the plaintiff, filed a plea of non est factum. To the ruling allowing said plea to be thus filed an exception pendente lite was taken. The case proceeded to trial, and upon the conclusion of the plaintiff’s…