Sewell v. Armour Fertilizer Works Inc.

This was a suit on an unconditional promissory note given by the plaintiff in error for rent. She filed a plea. By agreement the case was submitted to the judge, to pass upon the law and the facts without the intervention of a jury. The defendant admitted a prima facie case and assumed the burden. The bill of exceptions recites in part that “The plaintiff moved to strike and rule out all the answers of Mrs. Willie Blanche Sewell that added to, took from, or varied the terms of the written contract. The court, over the objection of the defendant, struck all the answers and excluded from the…