Conant v. National State Bank

— The appellees declared upon five promissory notes and a mortgage executed by the appellants for mill machinery, and the latter answered the complaint in several paragraphs of great length, to all of which demurrers were sustained.

The answers are very voluminous, and it would uselessly encumber the record to set them out, and we shall not attempt to do so, but will refer to such parts of them as are important when we come to consider the rules of law applicable to them.

Several of the paragraphs of the answer may be disposed of by the application of the familiar rule that where a written…