Holt v. Navassa Guano Co.

The Navassa Guano Company sued Holt upon two promissory notes. To this action the defendant pleaded that the consideration of the notes was commercial fertilizers, that a portion of the same was not tagged as required by the law of this State, and that for this reason the contracts evidenced by the notes were void. At the trial the court directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and to this ruling the defendant excepted.

Under the view we have taken of this case, it is unnecessary to determine certain questions which were claimed to have been presented in the record and which were argued…