Curry v. Keyser

This was a suit upon a promissory note calling for three thousand five hundred dollars. Error is assigned upon the action of the court below in sustaining demurrers to the first and third paragraphs of the answer.

The first paragraph of the answer avers, that the consideration of the note in suit was a certain steam saw-mill, and personal property, and certain timber trees growing upon certain lands, purchased at seven thousand dollars; that the plaintiff fraudulently represented to the defendants that the trees would make a certain quantity of lumber, whereas, in truth, they would make much…