Whitfield v. Webb

This is an action at law by the endorsee of four promissory notes, representing a portion of the purchase price of realty, against a grantee of the lands who is alleged to have assumed payment of said notes as a part of the consideration for the conveyance of the lands to the grantee-defendant.

A demurrer was sustained to plaintiff’s amended declaration, followed by entry of final judgment for defendant, to which judgment plaintiff took writ of error.

The declaration alleges the following facts:

E. H. Price Company, Inc., conveyed lands in Sarasota County to J. S. Hustlton. As a part of the…