Cole Brothers v. Williams

The defendant in error sued the plaintiffs in error in the court below for a bill of goods amounting to $330.48, giving them credit “by lightning rods $100.00,” and *441claiming a balance of $230.48, with interest. Tlie plaintiffs- in error made answer admitting the sale and delivery •of the goods, but setting up as a defense to said action the following special matter: “That some time on or about the 15th day of March, 1878, the plaintiffs herein, and this defendant, entered into a certain written contract or agreement, by the terms of which the defendants agreed to erect upon the building of…