Mitchell v. Henry Vogt Machine Co.

The Henry Vogt Machine Company brought suit in the city court of Americus against Thomas E. Mitchell, on five promissory notes for the principal sum of $8,000, besides interest. The defendant filed his answer setting up that the notes sued upon were made by him as a part of a contract in writing entered into between him and the plaintiff, and that there was a breach of this prior contract on the part of the plaintiff, in that the plaintiff had agreed in said contract to obtain from the Central of ■Georgia Kailway Company certain leases referred to in the contract; and he sought to set up and…