Winter v. Mobile Savings Bank

The case presents a singular state of pleadings. The complaint contains three counts — the first, a general count, on an account, not disclosing its consideration; the second, a count for money loaned; the third, a count on an account stated. The defendant pleaded eleven different pleas, including the general issue, payment, want of consideration, failure of consideration, set off, accord and satisfaction, the statute of limitations of six years — of three years- — that the consideration of the plaintiff’s claim was Confederate treasury notes, and in different forms, that the claim was…